"I don't like to sing loud."

-- Renee Fleming

“There's nowhere I won't go. As long as it's horribly, horribly true and/or wrong.”
“It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.”
“The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was important.”
“As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.”

Source : "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.
“Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272
“Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.”
“If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.”
“I still consider myself a feminist.”

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