"Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the African American and Latino population does live in poverty as compared to the white population, when overall numbers are looked at, it is clear that people of all races, ethnicities, and colors, are represented amongst America's poor."

“I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.”

Source : "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

“You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.”

“I believe that the influence of woman will save the country before every other power.”

Source : Remark at an anniversary celebration of the Equal Rights Association on May 12, 1869. "History of Woman Suffrage". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al., Volume 2, 1882.

“Then how can you ever know about the beautiful goodness of Mud? How bad it wants to be things. How bad it wants to get on your legs and arms and take your footprints and handprints and how bad it wants you to make it alive! Mud is always ready to play with you. Seriously you should try it!”

“The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.”

“A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.”

Source : Charles Henry Brent (1914). “With God in the World: A Series of Papers”

“When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting that I am, then I won't see it.”

“Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.”