"I always considered myself the world's worst actress."

“Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.”

“I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.”

“It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?”

“It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.”

Source : "Jason Lee: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. June 1, 2006.

“It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.”

“I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: The Story of Mary MacLane”, p.94, The Floating Press

“Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if— as the war ends, or at least starts to end— if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there— Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?”

Source : "The Rachel Maddow Show", February 27, 2009.

“I'm not good at debating - I'm much better at pontificating.”