"Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life"

“When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.”

“This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

“Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.”

Source : Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Whenever people ask you where you're from and you say New Orleans, it's always going to create a conversation.”

“I hate the word 'hippy.'”

“How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?”

“It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.”