"Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child."

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Source : FaceBook post by Tavis Smiley from Jul 20, 2010

Tavis Smiley

#Growing Up Quotes #Children Quotes #Want Quotes

“I always thought I was singing American folk music.”
“Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.”
“W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'”
“I come from a family of communist nudists. I was allowed to do or not do what I liked. My parents were not interested in whether I went to school or got drunk on white wine.”
“Pedaling through the dark currents, I find an accurate copy. A blue print of the pleasure in me.”
“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”

Source : The Independent on Sunday, June 24, 1990.
“It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons”
“Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.”

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