"You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!"

-- Art Tatum

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“The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.”
“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.”
“If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.”
“Each of us is present, but partially.”
“I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.”
“I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.”
“Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.”

Source : "Jessie Peabody. Sea Fighters from Drake to Farragut". Book by Jessie Peabody Frothingham, 1902.
“Thatâ€™s my biggest fear â€“ disappointing those people who look up to me.”

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