"Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path..."

“Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector”

“I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?”

“It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head”

“Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.”

Source : Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart

“The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.”

Source : Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press

“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”

“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.”

Source : "Artist Carrie Mae Weems on 30 Years of Genius [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kristin Braswell, www.ebony.com. February 5, 2014.

“You don't come to terms with something before you do it. It's only after you've done it that you realize, you know, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do. Sometimes you gotta fall down to know the feeling to get up.”