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“Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.”
Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
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“sooner or later I do what I want to do.”
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“The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven or hell. Purgatory is for the expiation of sin, the fact that you are there, and not in hell, means you'll eventually work your way to heaven. The experience of this play, 'Small oak tree', and its psychological architecture, relies on its knowledge of that. Many black people believe that this life, within itself, is a way to work out whatever obligations we have, in order to get to a better place.”
Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
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“....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.”
Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.73, Penguin
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“If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.”
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“The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra.”
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“Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.”
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“Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.”
Source : "Tahar Rahim: 'Not everybody is this crazy'". Interview with Henry Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2013.