Quotes from authors that died on Jan 31st
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Alexis Korner
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley
I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.
Bob Matsui
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
Walter Sisulu 
Joyce Carol Oates 
Theodor Svedberg 
Cassandra Wilson 
William J. Perry 
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka 
Robert T. Bakker 
Jimmy Durante