"Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection."

-- Michael Dirda

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“Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.”
“You had life by the tail and didn't know it.”
“Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.”
“The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.”

Source : Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press
“The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.”
“Wouldn't it be great if we didn't care who got the credit as long as the job got done?”
“Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.”
“I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.”

Source : "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.

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