"Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict."

“Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.”

“I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.”

Source : "Reed Hastings interview: 'Everybody would welcome a rival to Sky'". Interview with Dan Sabbagh, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.

“I try to encourage young people to follow their dreams. Even if you're born in an urban community it's always something available to you whether it be a dance class or whether you do really good in school and you can get a scholarship. So if you just put your mind to it and if you educate people enough and they know that they can find resources to help them get to where they need to go then that's really important.”

“I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy.”

“I was adopted my black Americans, I feel that I'm a 'Hybrid'. When I'm around Africans'I suddenly feel very black American. And when I'm around black Americans'I feel very North African. North Africa and black America are both the creators of Kola Boof.”

“Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.”

“I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher.”

Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.

“Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.”

Source : Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1823). “The remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's college, Cambridge: with an account of his life”, p.148