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“I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.”
Source : "March on Washington had one female speaker: Josephine Baker". Josephine Baker's speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 28, 1963. 
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“If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.”
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“I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens”
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“Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.”
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“I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.”
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“In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.”
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“I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy.”
Source : "This year, I will wear a poppy for the last time" by Harry Leslie Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2013.
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“It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.”
Source : Usa Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan, www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.
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“Don't add an eezy to my name, 'cause it has never been that'”
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“Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.”
Source : Maxine Kumin (2015). “The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company
