"Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence."

-- Angela Davis

#Words Of Wisdom Quotes #African American Quotes #Existence Quotes

“When we were shooting in Shreveport, me and a couple of friends went down to Lafayette, because they had a big Zydeco music festival down there. We spent two days dancing to Zydeco music, eating fried alligator... It was one of the craziest festivals I've ever been to in my life, but I loved it.”

Source : Interview with Win Butler, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
“When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption.”
“The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.”
“Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, And still a new to-morrow does come on. We by to-morrow draw out all our store, Till the exhausted well can yield no more.”
“Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.”
“Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!”
“You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.”

Source : Billy Joe Shaver, Brad Reagan (2005). “Honky Tonk Hero”, p.187, University of Texas Press

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