"When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it."

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Source : "Influential R & B singer, musician" by Randy Lewis, articles.latimes.com. January 19, 2012.

Johnny Otis

#African American Quotes #Age Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.”
“Canada is a big part of my life.”
“It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to get up.”
“Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.”
“Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!”
“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”
“It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live and you will never know”

Source : "Things: A Story of the Sixties".
“Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.”

Source : "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

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