"And as a young black man, a lot of my professors would really think that it was useful to see the work of politically oriented, positivistic, leftist creative works. And I found it incredibly useful. And I found it something that I've learned from and gained from."

“I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about how the world actually worked and if you could show how the world actually worked it would always have a de-masking and a subversive effect on the powerful. I don't think that's quite true, but it seems to me it's not bad as a point of departure anyway.”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

“there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.”

“Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “The Sympaty of Religions”, p.16

“When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Mar 17, 2014

“It`s always fun when somebody who you admire and respect is the voice - is your voice, as a viewer.”

“When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.”

Source : "'Star' Quality". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. December 10, 2009.

“Prayer changes things. It moves in the atmosphere. The bible says whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth, you loose in heaven. And I loose it. I speak into existence everything I want. And I bind it. And I cast out everything that is not right. So absolutely. My faith is all that I had, all I have and all I will have to hold on to.”

“It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.”