"A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all."

“All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2007). “Minaret: A Novel”, p.158, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.”

Source : "A Dialogue With Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.

“Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.”

Source : Ha-Joon Chang (2008). “Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity”, p.61, Random House

“Have you ever thought that the only ugl things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.”

“What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.”

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.

“In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean?”

Source : Motto.

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”

Source : Nalo Hopkinson (2013). “Sister Mine”, p.110, Hachette UK

“I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.”