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“I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.”
Source : "Rapped up in tweed" by Simon Mills, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2008. 
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“Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.”
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“I believe that fashion is the ultimate form if self expression therefore it really depends on my mood.”
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“When I was about 16 years old, God was beckoning me and calling me. He was relentless with me and I finally just gave up. I got to a point in my life where I realized that everything I was trying to grasp for was leaving me empty. It was totally unsatisfying.”
Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
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“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”
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“Long ago I left heroics to the heroes”
Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.68, A&C Black
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“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.”
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“Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”
Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.220, Agate Digital
