"Ask yourself what makes you come alive."

--

Source : "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

Howard Thurman

“Every true friend is a glimpse of God.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1892). “As it is in Heaven”
“I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.”
“I had designed -in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.”
“For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.”
“... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.”
“Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!”
“Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union”
“Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.”

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