"Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for."

“If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.”

“...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.”

“No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.”

Source : "Jason Aldean interview: New country superstar keeps practical approach despite success". Interview with John Serba, www.mlive.com. February 13, 2014.

“Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.”

“one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

“The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.”

“Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.”

“My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.”