"We are so many different people in one lifetime."

“The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which promise much but deliver little. The central doctrine of Neo-Conservatism is "democratic capitalism." This is the ultimate oxymoron, because in practice the political pluralism that should underlie democracy cannot exist in a climate of economic plutocracy.”

“Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.”

“I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.”

“I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.”

“I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.”

“duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.”

Source : Colleen McCullough (1999). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings

“God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.”

“I sincerely hope that I shall always be a credit to my race, and to the motion picture industry.”

Source : "Oscar's First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated 'No Blacks' Hotel in L.A." by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 19, 2015.