"We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish."

-- Gene Ween

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“In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.”
“The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves.”
“Be who you are. Find your own voice. Lead from the heart”
“As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.”

Source : George Ade (2016). “Fables in Slang”, p.18, Youcanprint
“The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.”
“Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I'd get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, 'Hey Jerry, we're going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.'”
“It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.”
“Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.”

Source : Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.48, Nation Books

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