"An evil word it is/ This Love,"

-- Amiri Baraka

“Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.”
“We were the ultimate consumers of the thing, and we thought, "Every college kid is going to go berserk. High school kids - it will introduce them to music they didn't know about. This is going to be a phenomenon." Plus, it seemed like it was insider-y, yet it was available to everyone. I thought, "Cable companies are going to be snatching this up." You think about the dreck that is on so many cable companies, of course they're going to love this. And we were just crushed that nobody cared.”
“Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
“Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.”
“To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.”
“Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.”

Source : Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136
“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”

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