"I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me."

-- Nikki Grimes

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“You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.”
“Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?”
“I soon realized that I didn't have a great passion for academia and I didn't like sitting in front of the computer all day. I would much prefer to be a carpenter.”

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“There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else - but persistent.”
“Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.”
“There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.”
“Make it a habit to praise the horse when the horse yields.”
“It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music”

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