"I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession."

-- Rokia Traore

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“But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.”
“I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.”

Source : "Hawaii, Mortuaries, And Saving Kurt Vonnegut". Interview with Jane Ormerod, www.greatweatherformedia.com. September 5, 2013.
“The most important thing we can do to save our oceans is to dramatically expand our efforts to establish new marine protected areas and make sure that critical fish spawning sites and ecosystems remain undisturbed.”
“The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.”
“Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?”
“When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.”
“"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.”

Source : "Beyond Apollo". Book by Barry Malzberg, 1972.
“Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by observation. So he reasons, compares facts, puts questions to them, and by the answers which he extracts, tests one by another. This sort of control, by means of reasoning and facts, is what constitutes experiment, properly speaking; and it is the only process that we have for teaching ourselves about the nature of things outside us.”

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