"To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves."

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Source : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Etheridge Knight

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“We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.”
“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”
“Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.”
“I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.”
“In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.”

Source : Raymond Mortimer (1976). “Try anything once”, Hamish Hamilton
“Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, â€œWhat is that junk?â€ Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.”
“No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.”
“Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.405, Anchor

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