"Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization and migration; this belief must be important for group formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists."

“There's just something about being a young, working class, working poor, person of color in New York City in the 80's that needs to be understood by people outside of that experience. The way I put it is that we created something really amazing, hip hop, when we weren't even supposed to survive.”

“I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.”

“I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers.”

“They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.”

“Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.”

Source : Geoffrey Wood (2011). “Leaper: The Misadventures of a Not-Necessarily-Super Hero”, WaterBrook

“Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.”

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

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”

Source : Rudyard Kipling (2015). “ULTIMATE Collection of Rudyard Kipling: His Greatest Works in One Volume (Illustrated Edition): The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Just So Stories, Kim, The Light That Failed, Captain Courageous, Plain Tales from the Hills”, p.474, e-artnow

“Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.”