"The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity."

“If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet”

Source : "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.

“I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with the system that is oppressing him. Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male's lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction, but nothing could be further from the truth. His motivation is often of such a bloody, hateful, bitter, and malignant nature that whites would really be hard pressed to find it flattering.”

Source : Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.49, Macmillan

“No sustainable development, environmental harmony or lasting security will happen if we are unable to eradicate hunger and extreme inequality”

“You can control what you put in your body - 100 percent. You really can control your level of fitness and how your body looks.”

“No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.”

“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.”

“Cosplayers love Disney princesses. We all grew up with them. We identify with one or more princesses.”

“It's so interesting, you know, whenever you read the accounts of composers playing their own music, that they had very different priorities than performers. None of them seemed too concerned about the plastic realization of their music.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.