"Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ"

“Although the term dialogue was really a euphemism for scientists trying to kill each other, this format worked very well...”

Source : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

“I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.”

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

“If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.”

“I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort of invigorating, too. No one really says, "Oh you're a lawyer? I've never understood the law. In fact, I kind of hate it." Or, "Oh you wait tables? I didn't know that was something people did." I say it can be invigorating because, on some level, we have to evaluate what we do and why we do it almost daily. We have to explain ourselves to people all the time. We have to say, "Yes, I am a unicorn, believe in me."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.”

“I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.”

“I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].”

Source : Richard Wright (2017). “Black Boy”, p.71, Random House