"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."

“People who have diabetes are dear to my heart, and I want to help them.”

Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com

“I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.”

“For me, my life is a journey.”

Source : "Jay Electronica" by Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

“Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital

“Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.”

“You’ve only had a small glimpse of how insufferable and annoying I can be. As the older brother, it’s my birthright.”

“My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.”

“Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.”