"The real hero must fail in order to succeed."

“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.”

“The thing you are ripening toward is the fruit of your life. It will make you bright inside, no matter what you are outside. It is a shining thing.”

Source : Stewart Edward White, Elizabeth Calvert Grant White (1947). “With folded wings”

“The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.”

Source : Evgeny Morozov (2014). “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”, p.346, PublicAffairs

“Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.”

“Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.”

“What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?”

“White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.”

“Everyone in the movie industry wants to win an Oscar. I don't think that's why you make movies. But winning an Oscar is not just about making a great movie, unfortunately. It's also having a good Oscar campaign.”