"When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music."

-- Michael Franti

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“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”

Source : Russell Hoban (2012). “The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing
“They'll be days like this" my momma said. When you open your hands to catch, and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you try to step out of the phone booth and try to fly , and the very people you want to save, are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain, and you'll be up to your knees with disappointment And those are the very days you have all the more reason to say "Thank you".”

Source : Sarah Kay, “If I should have a daughter”
“In some ways, Lotus Eaters is a journey disguised as a party film; there's a circus in the movie, and there are parties, but the real story is of an internal journey. There's themes of emptiness and excess and beauty and grief around it, but it's always surrounded by these glamorous events, and those are ways of waylaying her on her journey in the same way that it is in the ancient Greek story.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.”
“The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.”
“Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.”
“The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.”
“I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery ...”

Source : Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”

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