Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)

That people you don’t know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them – that encountering new ideas – doesn’t threaten you, it enriches you. (Celeste Ng)

To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

Education is the transportation of the mind.

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.

May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material.