"Before we make music, music makes us."

-- Joachim-Ernst Berendt

“I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.”
“I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another.In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.”
“somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.”

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers on value. I think to just say, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today. And I think once you start putting phony figures into financial statements, you get in a lot of trouble.”
“My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience”
“For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle class and wealthy people. Crack, which is used by people in South Central, carries a felony conviction.”
“I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.”

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