"Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death."

“Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith.”

Source : Sister Nivedita (1915). “Religion and Dharma”

“I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.”

“There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.”

“I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.”

“Looking back, I have to say that I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people. Unfortunately, a lot of them are gone. But I look back and, yeah, I have had a really great career!”

Source : "Exclusive! Nicole Beharie Talks Career Choices, Burden Of Representation, Being An “It” Girl & More". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2011.

“To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.”

“See the effect of commercial intercourse.”

“It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.”