"I like seeing things that you don't normally see. Black people are so diverse, we do so many things, we have given so much to this world - and we are constantly giving."

“Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.”

“To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.”

“What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.”

“It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.”

“I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.”

“I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.”

Source : "The overlooked CDs from 2003", www.today.com. January 6, 2004.

“Sometimes there's no point in giving up.”

Source : "The Ringworld Engineers". Book by Larry Niven, 1980.