"Regardless of how large, your vision is too small."

“Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.”

“I'm exhausted almost all the time.”

“We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.”

“Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.”

“Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?”

Source : Nicole Williams (2012). “Clash”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

“For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.”

“Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!”

“Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.”

Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.145, A&C Black