"If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists."

-- Vivek Shraya

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“Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.”
“I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.”
“I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 02, 2014
“Prayer changes things. It moves in the atmosphere. The bible says whatsoever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth, you loose in heaven. And I loose it. I speak into existence everything I want. And I bind it. And I cast out everything that is not right. So absolutely. My faith is all that I had, all I have and all I will have to hold on to.”
“We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.”
“Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.”

Source : Quoted by Charu Chandra Banerjee in a speech at Dhaka Purva Bangla Brahmo Samaj; "Brahmananda Keshub Chunder Sen: Testimonies in Memoriam" compiled by G.C.Banerji, Allahabad, 1934.
“Love the calling you have, not the one you wish you had.”
“The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color problem that is still far from solution here, or anywhere. In America particularly, the grapes of wrath have not yet yielded all their bitter vintage.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1972). “The Oxford history of the American people”, Signet

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