"The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons."

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Source : Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co

Amiri Baraka

#Moving Quotes #Reality Quotes #Blue Quotes

“This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”
“With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.”

Source : Alex Shakar (2009). “The Savage Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins
“Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down.”
“There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.”
“Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1792). “British Theatre: Isabella, or, The fatal marriage”
“Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.”

Source : "Keeping Politics out of the Court". The New York Times, December 09, 1984.
“I just can't imagine that it's only a coincidence. I think they feel that it's kind of getting out of their control, and they're trying to tighten it back up.”
“I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.”

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