„I have never seen anyone burn a flag. And if I did, it would take every ounce of restraint I had not to haul off and hit them.“

— Barack Obama
„I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Perhaps I did not succumb to ideology … because I have never seen myself as a spokesman. I am a witness.“
— James Baldwin