"Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans."

“I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, shes inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.”

Source : "Gina Prince-Bythewood & Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Beyond the Lights". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 21, 2014.

“Real elegance is simply a true encounter with oneself.”

“It sounds extraordinary, but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.”

“Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”

“Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.”

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.6, Anchor

“I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.”

“To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.”

“America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books