A symbolic victory is still a victory.

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.

All books are merely delayed dust.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.

I love fools who don't know they are fools but hate fools that know they are.

She was so exhausted. She slept. She was unaware of Tyler stifling his own grief.

You will usually find two kind of people around Some Sympathetic and Some Antipathetic and I'm not concerned with the former

I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.

What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick.

Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.