"It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal"

“People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.”

Source : "Anthony Hamilton On The ‘Sparkle’ Soundtrack, Whitney Houston’s Death And UNCF". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

“I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.”

“When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.”

“Troubles, even the dullest, are always mildly interesting at the first hearing ...”

“I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.”

“As an entrepreneur you are often failing as much as you are succeeding. You are falling on your face as much as you are stepping up and moving forward. You need resilience to get up, re-gather, think of what you are going to do next, not letting that misstep pull you down. Next, you cannot be afraid of looking stupid or not being perfect. You have to be okay with sticking your neck out, being willing to fall down, and knowing that you are more measured over time about how you are getting back up.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”