"I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet."

“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. [] If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.”

“The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.”

“All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that’s what makes you you.”

“We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective”

Source : Justin Somper (2008). “Vampirates: Blood Captain”, p.300, Hachette UK

“When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.”

“Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.”

“You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.”

Source : "13 Questions With Talib Kweli". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

“Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.