"The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got."

“I have a huge issue with blackface.”

“Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.”

“So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.”

“We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.”

“Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in the world today. There is so much that we don’t know, and so much that we know we don’t know. To be overly confident or without doubt seems silly to me. Determination, on the other hand, is a commitment to win, a commitment to fight the good fight.”

Source : Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.25, Anchor

“We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.”

“Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.”

Source : "Namaste & Conversation : Interviews With Kenny G and David Benoit, Plus Downtown Struts and Sara Jackson-Holman Exclusives". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

“A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.”