"[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy."

“When you get to a certain level of recognizability, celebrity, you can't go out of the house without someone going, "Can I just have one photo?" I don't mind, by the way, if anyone wants one we can take some photos. But sometimes you just wanna stay in the house or in the hotel room with the shades closed.”

“Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.”

Source : Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press

“..the real world's all we've got. Believers in the supernatural claim to have special wisdom about the world. But real wisdom means knowing truth from falsehood, knowing the difference between evidence and wishful thinking. Yes, the real world is mysterious and sometimes frightening. But would the supernatural make it better? The real world has beauty, poetry, love and the joy of honest discovery. Isn't that enough?”

“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.”

Source : "The Masses" Magazine, September 1917.

“You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.”

“And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”

“Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.”

Source : Acceptance speech for the Charles S. Johnson Award at Fisk University, 1966.

“After all these years of wandering around as a street photographer and a journalist, I decided that this world is such a curious, screwed up place so full of contradictions... that I couldn't look at it any more in the raw form without trying to find some way of balancing it in a more philosophical context - less in a reportorial manner and more in an artistic one.”