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“I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.”
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“We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.”
Source : Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC
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“Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.”
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“The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.”
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“Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing; it’s an iterative process.”
Source : "The Human Element: Melinda Gates and Paul Farmer on Designing Global Health". Interview with Caitlin Roper, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013. 
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“We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.”
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“I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.”
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“It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive, day in and day out,”
Source : David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Address at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.1843magazine.com. September 18, 2008.
