"Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats."

-- Duke Ellington

#Music Quotes #Children Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.”
“It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.”
“The biblical God lets us make our own history, and goes with us on the more or less unheard-of adventures we concoct.”
“Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey.”
“If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off”

Source : Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
“The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.”
“I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.”
“Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.”

Source : "Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas". August 09, 2012.

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