"I want to be someone making music/with my coming."

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Naomi Shihab Nye

“There were times in my career where I could have easily been traded, easily been given up on, and I think me making strides, me making a commitment to myself to come in and get better showed people what I could do each year. From there, people started to believe in me, and the organization believed in me, and once that happened, it was on me to take this thing on.”
“Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.”
“You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.”
“I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?”
“A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'”

Source : Philip Kapleau (1980). “Zen: dawn in the West”, Doubleday
“A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.”
“Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character.”

Source : Quentin Tarantino (1994). “Pulp Fiction”, Miramax Books
“We're progressing on a lot of fronts, but on the aspect of your responsibility - just the very basics of how we treat each other - before we learn mathematics and computers and science in school, and languages and all of this, the basis of it: What is it to be a human? What responsibility do you have?”

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