"American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here."

-- Rokia Traore

#Thinking Quotes #African Music Quotes #Festivals Quotes

“Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.”

Source : Victoria Gotti (1997). “The Senator's Daughter”, Macmillan Reference USA
“The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.”
“How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me â€” namely that Adam is our Father and God â€”...”
“I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.”
“My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.”
“Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.”
“But not all scars showed, did they?”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.53, Penguin
“Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.”

Source : "Books of the Times", New York Times, June 6, 1984.

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