"A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom."

“Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.”

“I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.”

“Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.”

“I kind of lost my sense of organized religion and became more spiritual from the experience. I would walk in the woods and to the sand dunes and the lake every day. That spoke to me more than getting up at six and the morning and saying some prayers. That had nothing to do with religion to me.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com

“The universe is like a pension plan. It will match your investment.”

“Yes, I'm the real Sammy Sosa, and this is my Pinterest,”

Source : "Sammy Sosa Pinterest, Flickr Accounts Share Photos Of Former Slugger, His Wardrobe", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.

“A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word-Love!”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

“It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.”