"I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning"

“Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it.”

“Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree

“I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.”

Source : "Manchin, NRA talking" by Manu Raju and John Bresnahan, www.politico.com. March 23, 2013.

“I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.”

“A smart model is a good model.”

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”

“The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.”