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Jamake Highwater
"Some of the most popular discos in America and Europe were started as gay establishments, which began to open their doors to anyone who wanted to dance." --
Source : Jamake Highwater (1992). “Dance: Rituals of Experience”, p.56, Oxford University Press, USA
Jamake Highwater
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“I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My favorite show is America's Funniest Home Videos. People will get hit on the head and I feel bad cause I'm laughing my head off!”
“There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.”
“If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.”
“Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.”
“Because, Cat, it’s the feminine persuasion that’s always the deadliest.”
“I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?”
“They say a woman's place Is to wait and serve Under the veil Submissive and dear But I think my place Is in a ship from space To carry me The hell out of here.”
Source : Song: The Right to Vote, Album: Mother's Spiritual