Toni Morrison // "You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
John Lee Hooker // "I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune."
Viggo Mortensen // "I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile."
Bette Davis // "I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn’t. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure."
Sylvia Plath // "I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me... I would like to be everyone...a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person."
Edith Sitwell // "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Bertrand Russell // "Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
Virginia Woolf // "Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls play free."
Waris Ahluwalia // "I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really."
Colette // "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that... And when we stop to analyze the cause of our world's ills, many things come to mind. We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don't know enough. But it can't be that. Because in terms of accumulated knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of human history... And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific genius lags behind... Well then, it can't be that. For our scientific progress over the past years has been amazing... I think we have to look much deeper than that if we are to find the real cause of man's problems and the real cause of the world's ills today. If we are to really find it I think we will have to look in the hearts and souls of men. The trouble isn't so much that we don't know enough, but it's as if we aren't good enough. The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live... The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood."
Björk // "I don't feed so much off competition. Union is definitely more interesting to me. No two people are ever going to be the same but I am curious about which aspects of two characters overlap...where the merge occurs. Sometimes physical, sometimes musical, sometimes ideological, sometimes spiritual; sometimes a mix of all of the above."