"I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels."

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Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2007). “Mozart and Leadbelly”, p.27, Vintage

Ernest Gaines

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“If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species.”
“We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.”

Source : "Sasha Grey: Music is just like the porn industry". Interview with Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2012.
“When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.”
“And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.”
“If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.”
“When I first moved to L.A., I thought about turning gay. Then I realized none of the guys I was interested in was good enough for me.”
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

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