"I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive."

“Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.”

“Grace in the soul is heaven in that soul.”

“I want my daughters to be respected as human beings; that's the country I'm fighting for.”

Source : "Fawzia Koofi targets Afghan presidency as fight for women's rights continues". Interview with Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

“A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make”

“I Think art is the only political power, the only revolutionary power , the only evolutionary power, the only power to free humankind form all repression. I say not that art has already realized this, on the contrary, and because it has not, it has to be developed as a weapon, at first there are radical levels, then you can speak about special details. (1973”

Source : "The Role of Documentation in Conceptual Art: : An Aesthetic Inquiry". Book by Robert C. Morgan, 1978.

“There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.”

“Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.”

Source : "The Struggle to Overcome Depression" by Susan Polis Schutz, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2010.

“The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.”