"Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face, they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place."

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Source : "Song: 'Dear God' ('A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden')". 2011.

Dawud Wharnsby Ali

#Teacher Quotes #Names Quotes #Family And Friends Quotes

“I'm not gonna give up, shut up, or let up, until I'm taken up... as a matter of fact, I'm just getting warmed up.”
“You are blowing my mind.”
“A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.”
“The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.”
“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
“Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.”
“I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.”
“To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.”

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