"Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe."

“[I] can't actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease. Affirmative action has been an issue since segregation practices. The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin [..] When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”

Source : "Holder talks financial crime, affirmative action at Low". Columbia Spectator, February 24, 2012.

“My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!”

“Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.”

“When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.”

Source : Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

“I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.”

“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.”

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”

Source : Song: Just the Two of Us, Album: Big Willie Style, 1997

“I would like to be on the farm. To ride the horses. To watch the cattle, and the plantations, and the beautiful vegetables that my sons are growing there. I would like it. I am one of those who do not have to worry about what I am doing later. I love the fields.”