"We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us."

“In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.”

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

“As there are so many who talk prose without knowing it, or, again, who syllogize without having the least idea what a syllogism is, so economists have long been mathematicians without being aware of the fact.”

“In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy.”

Source : "Evangelicals". Interview with Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. August 28, 2006.

“The music paled like a candle and went out ...”

Source : Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”

“I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.”

Source : Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.202, Rowman & Littlefield

“There is no real joy that does not involve self-denial and self-discipline”

“I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.”