"The whole world is a personality cult."

“We love those beautiful, Latin American stories where there is an element that's more mysterious and wonderful. I think as a child a lot of us love the idea of the star and more of the supernatural elements.”

“My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.”

“Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.”

“One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.”

“I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.”

Source : "Mary Beard reveals she befriended Twitter trolls following online abuse" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2014.

“Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.”

“I don't feel my job is on the line, but of course that might change.”