"Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master."

“Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.”

“Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.”

“Given the way his night had been going so far, he didn't have time to go to jail.”

Source : Christine Warren (2006). “She's No Faerie Princess: A Novel of the Others”, p.23, Macmillan

“What I really want is a commercial hit. If youre in a hit, youre suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.”

“The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.”

“In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.”

Source : Lynn Arthur Steen (2004). “Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An Urgent Challenge for Higher Education”, p.41, MAA

“Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.”

Source : "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

“My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.”