"This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Kamasi Washington

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“The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.”
“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.”
“I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.”
“Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.”
“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”
“As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy's comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes--and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.”
“As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.”
“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”

Source : Douglas Huebler, Dittmar Memorial Gallery (1980). “Douglas Huebler, 10 +: exhibition , April 2-May 2, 1980, Northwestern University, Dittmar Memorial Gallery, Evanston Illinois”

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