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“You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.”
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“Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.”
Source : "An Interview with the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers". Interview with Marissa Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2009. 
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“The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.”
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“The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.”
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“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
Source : Kate DiCamillo (2009). “Because of Winn-Dixie”, p.159, Candlewick Press
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“Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.”
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“Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.”
Source : "2016 Race: Is looking for faith in a candidate the wrong way to approach the voting booth?" by Bruce Riley Ashford , Chris Pappalardo, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2016.
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“Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.”
