"Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face."

“If you don't have any shadows, you're not standing in the light.”

“The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.”

“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.”

“I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.”

“Let's try and fail because through failure you learn”

“I think looking at as, "Bands that release their music for free online only make their money from playing live," is not seeing the full picture. Maybe the dollars specifically come from shows, but people are coming to the shows because they heard the songs, they heard the songs because they are free on the Internet. It all builds into the same thing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.”

Source : "Tayari Jones Knows Why She Sings". Interview with Ru Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2012.

“There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.”

Source : Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.21, Faber & Faber