“I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.”
Source : "Ailey's Troupe Explores Its Roots". Interview with Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 1983. 
“Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.”
Source : John Gregory Dunne (2013). “Crooning”, p.196, Zola Books
“There is nothing more powerful and beautiful than motherhood.”
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”
Source : "Gonzales: 'There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution'". Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings Transcript, thinkprogress.org. January 19, 2007.
“When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises”
“I don't like the spirit of socialism - I think freedom is the basis of everything.”
Danny DeVito
Actor
J. K. Rowling
Novelist
Jim Carrey
Actor
Maurice Sendak
Illustrator
Mo Willems
Writer
Quentin Blake
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Roald Dahl
Novelist
Shel Silverstein
Poet
Eric Carle
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