"I think all it really takes for different people to get along is a common rooting interest and a few beers."

“I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.”

Source : "Attention Scum". TV Series, 2001.

“I'm not a politician, I'm a musician. I care about giving people a place where they can go to enjoy themselves and to begin to live again. To the man you have to give the spirit, and when you give him the spirit, you have done everything.”

Source : BBC Music Magazine, April 1998.

“My ambition was to live like music.”

Source : Mary Gaitskill (2013). “Veronica”, p.33, Vintage

“If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and weary,dragging home food, arms cut and scarred,that you saw yellow flowers, not knowing what you did, picked them because I love you? In the fossil record of our existence, there is no trace of love.You cannot find it held in the earth's crust, waiting to be discovered. The long bones of our ancestors show nothing of their hearts.”

“When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black people tap into a divine system that a lot of other cultures and races can't tap into and that system allows us to prosper in spite of everything that's been thrown our way from slavery to segregation to mass incarceration. We have a privilege pre-ordained by God that nothing and no one can stop.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net

“As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.”

“If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.”