"Luther Vandross and I met in Roberta Flack's band. He was singing background, I was playing bass, and Roberta was beautiful. She's like the mom to all these young musicians in New York. At that time that I met Luther, I was a musician snob. For me, the singers were just the people out in the front to keep the audience entertained. While the musicians did the real work."

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Marcus Miller

#Beautiful Quotes #Mom Quotes #Real Quotes

“In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.”

Source : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage
“Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.”
“To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.”
“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.”

Source : Daddy,We Hardly Knew You (1989)
“I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.”
“You can't underestimate the power of fear.”

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