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“And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.”
Source : Interview with Katharine Coles, weberstudies.weber.edu. 1992. 
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“Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.”
Source : Song: Lean On Me, 1972
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“People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.”
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“I'd fallen asleep thinking I was much too tired to go on working and if I went on working, I'd lose it. I'd get a better hold of it in the morning; feel stronger. But I looked and looked at it and it seemed to me there was nothing to do.”
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“We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.”
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“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.”
Source : "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.
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“John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.”
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“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.”
Source : 1951 Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance.
