"I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people."

“The one sole thing in myself in which I glory is that I see in myself nothing in which I can glory.”

Source : Saint Catherine (of Genoa), Paul Garvin (1964). “The life and sayings of Saint Catherine of Genoa”

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

“For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.”

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

Source : "Stranger in the Village". Essay by James A. Baldwin, first published in Harper's Magazine (1953), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), and later quoted in "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.

“If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.”

“What is a society without a heroic dimension?”

“There's a quote that I learned in college a million years ago. "Happy, thought I, is the man who can, in one and the same embrace, hold both his love and the object of his love." Holding the feeling that you have and all the images that you've got and all the fantasies and romantic associations while also holding the actual core person that's been saddled with all of this.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.”