"African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields."

“Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.”

“...climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.”

Source : "Australian prime minister lays out climate-change plan". www.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

“Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.”

“I'm not like Madonna. I haven't changed my lilt in my voice.”

“After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.”

“I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.”

“Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.”

“I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.”

Source : Robert Creeley (2006). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005”, p.495, Univ of California Press