„Found something?”“No, sorry. I thought I had, but, no, it turned out to be, uh… more floor.“

— Derek Landy
„I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of…“
— Paul Robeson
„You know," Gabriel said, "there was a time I thought we could be friends, Will.""There was a time I thought I was a ferret," Will said, "but that turned out to be the opium haze. Did you know it had that effect? Because I didn't.“
— Cassandra Clare