"The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses."

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”

Source : Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.299, Vintage

“Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.”

Source : "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.

“Quotations calcify into clichés.”

“I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.”

Source : "Mindful Music: The Creation of ‘Everything Changes’ With Julian Lennon". Interview with Ronald Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

“When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.”

“Death is an eternal sleep.”

Source : Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

“You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.”

“My beauty routine is basically plenty of sleep and lots of water.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.