"Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors."

“Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.”

“Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.”

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

“Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.”

“Starting the blog was a way for me to generate this nonfiction first-person voice naturally, gradually, without feeling performance anxiety. It felt a bit like keeping journals when I was younger, but connecting to an instant readership without having to wait for publication made it also immediately satisfying.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“It's hard to articulate what everybody else is feeling.”

“New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.”

“There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.”

Source : "The mass incarceration of the Black community: an interview with Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow’". Interview with Minister of Information JR Valrey, sfbayview.com. April 4, 2012.