"Playing 'bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing."

-- Duke Ellington

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“Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the self of its masks in order to analyze how those masks are made - by what means, by whom, for what ostensible purpose - those poems risk offering us refuge.”

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“Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.”
“Abortion is a right I feel must not go away, and I feel like people aren't mobilizing so much because it's so complicated and it's difficult to understand.”
“You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And...that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.”
“Mind and body have taken the journey, but the real home place is your own heart. It is infinite and so wherever you go, you are always Home.”
“The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.”
“What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.”
“The audience got jaded, they want a hit, they want a big success, and so you don't want to experiment because you say, well, I'll disappoint the audience, they may not like it, I better do something that I think is more commercial.”

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