"All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student."

“Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.”

“A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.”

Source : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey

“That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.”

“An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.”

“My mom was so people-friendly. She was incredible. She'd go to the mall, and she'd talk to everyone. Give people a kiss on the cheek. I think if I wasn't pushed around a lot, I'd be great with people. Maybe I still can be.”

“I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!”

“Did you see, after this horrific tragedy in Boston, that [Barack] Obama cannot utter the word 'terrorist.' It's not politically correct. He even called the Fort Hood murderer 'workplace violence.' Because it's politically incorrect to talk about 'jihad,' or to talk about 'terrorist,' or to talk about 'the war on terror.' He won't say those words, because they're politically incorrect.”

“And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books