"In light of the events on September 11, my country has told me that I should not cooperate with terrorists. I therefore am refusing to cooperate with members of Congress who are some of the most extreme terrorists in history."

“Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2016). “Deanna Raybourn Lady Julia Grey Volume 1: Silent in the Grave\Silent in the Sanctuary\Silent on the Moor”, p.66, MIRA

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.”

Source : "Peter's Almanac". Book by Laurence J. Peter. Entry for September 24, 1982.

“I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise missiles into Afghanistan so far. Now take the cost of one of those missiles, tipped with a Raytheon guidance system, which I think is about $840,000. For that much money, you could build dozens of schools that could provide tens of thousands of students with a balanced, non extremist education over the course of a generation. Which do you think will make us more secure?”

Source : Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.178, Penguin

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.”

Source : "The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories". Book by John V. Denson, p. 488, 1999.

“Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.”

“[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.”

“What I said was I’ll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it’s funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I’d be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I’m willing to die alone but god knows I don’t want to live that way.”

“I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.”

Source : "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.