"I am in love and out of it I will not go."

“What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.”

Source : Romare Bearden (1968). “Romare Bearden: Paintings and Projections”

“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”

“When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.”

“The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if they're 50% of the research results. You in the public would have no idea that this is basically a done deal and that we're on to other problems, because the journalists are trying to give it a 50/50 story. It's not a 50/50 story. It's not. Period.”

“I hate to play a tournament in which I'm not contending. It's just not any fun for me.”

“But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.”

Source : Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.22, Conari Press

“Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.”

“Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.”