"Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further."

-- Gary Bartz

#Men Quotes #Play Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”

Source : Eudora Welty (1982). “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.”
“Art is an adventure that never seems to end.”
“As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.”
“Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.”

Source : "Man in the News; Theorist With a Heart; Jack French Kemp" by Clifford D. May, www.nytimes.com. December 20, 1988.
“The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.”

Source : Leila Aboulela (2011). “Lyrics Alley: A Novel”, p.280, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.”
“I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.”

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