"African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed. They don't want to be beat. They don't want to be shot down in their neighborhoods, whether it's by police officers or people who live there."

-- Ras Baraka

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.”

Source : Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com. November 22, 2000.
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
“The greater the tension, the greater is the potential.”
“I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.”
“The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.”
“I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.”
“The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”
“Just because you lose doesn't make you a loser. It's not the same fight every time.”

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