"Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year."

“Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I.”

Source : Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.8, Soft Skull Press

“Whatever we repress eventually develops aspects of terror.”

Source : Christin Lore Weber (1997). “Circle of Mysteries: The Women's Rosary Book”, p.197, Yes International Publishers

“I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.”

“The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant.”

Source : "Producers Barbara Broccoli & Michael Wilson Interview QUANTUM OF SOLACE". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 15, 2008.

“I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.”

Source : "Lee DeWyze: Some people take pictures, I write songs". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 23, 2011.

“My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.”

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.”

“The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.”