"Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease."

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Source : Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

Sarojini Naidu

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“Nobody wants a fat lead singer.”
“I haven't got a great jazz band and I don't want one. Some of the critics, Down Beat's among them, point their fingers at us and charge us with forsaking real jazz . . . It's all in what you define as 'real jazz.' It happens that to our ears harmony comes first. A dozen colored bands have a better beat than mine. Our band stresses harmony.”
“Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.”
“When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.”
“I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.”
“I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream and that I had but to awake to find myself cured; at times it seemed that my entire life had been a dream, ridiculous and childish, the falseness of which had just been disclosed.”
“I married her just because she looks like you.”
“I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.”

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