"The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in."

“I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.”

Source : "Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Is Dead at 96" by Karen Rosenberg, www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2012.

“On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.”

“I bet it breaks your heart to have two of your friends pine for me the way they do," he said proudly. "Luna...and now Scarlet. They can't keep their hands off of me." "It's just because you are foreign to them. It's like if they went to the zoo and stared at the monkeys. You are the monkey.”

“It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.”

“Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.”

Source : Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.144, Vintage

“In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.”

“Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.”

“Why doesn't Prin go and get her own ***** blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?”

Source : Margaret Laurence (1974). “The Diviners”, p.36, University of Chicago Press