"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"

“I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is, a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film, than feeling like you've achieved that.”

Source : "Ruth Negga: 'I'm not in any rush to get anywhere'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.

“Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is to put music to them and in this way you make contact with the words, through the musical thing. It happens when two feelings come together and they do something together and they compliment each other.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com

“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”

“But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future,”

“People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.”

“If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.”

“Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This work was seminal in providing a basis for many subsequent theoretical studies . .”