"My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao."

“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”

“I think that it's the passion for the game that we have and just the work ethic. We try to work as hard as we can every game. Trusting God and help from our parents have gotten us to where we are now.”

“Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.”

“There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

“I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.”

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

“The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.”

Source : "Valorie Curry Talks THE FOLLOWING, What It’s Like to Play a Psycho, Working with James Purefoy, Her Character’s Future, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 22, 2013.

“I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.”

“Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.”