"The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong."

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Source : Jewell Parker Rhodes (2010). “Ninth Ward”, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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“What's the basis when rappers don't know the basics? Still not takin' advice from those I wouldn't trade places with.”
“As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it gets magnetically drawn to you. It's a symbiosis whether you like it or not.”

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“I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.”
“I need to be in a stable environment right now in my career. What I mean by that is a place where I can play and not have too much pressure on me and a place I can develop. Monaco wanted me and did whatever they could to get me so I feel very very good about that.”
“None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.”
“I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.”
“I feel most at home when I am writing a poemâ€”because in that instant, I am everywhere.”
“I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.”

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