"I think there's an intricacy in doing something that's meant to look really simple and having it actually be quite complicated."

“The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.”

“It's not a big secret that what's lacking and what's wrong in our society starts with education.”

“A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.”

“The ukulele is the instrument of peace,”

Source : "BYT Interviews: Jake Shimabukuro". Interview with Jade Salazar, brightestyoungthings.com. April 23, 2013.

“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

“Character is what you do when no one is watching.”

“Like our title song “Clap”, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.”

“When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.”