"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet"

-- June Jordan

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“You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.”
“Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience.”
“I DECLARE that God has a great plan for my life. He is directing my steps. And even though I may not always understand how, I know my situation is not a surprise to God. He will work out every detail to my advantage. In His perfect timing, everything will turn out right. This is my declaration.”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.272, Penguin
“I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.”
“I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.”
“All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?”

Source : Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing
“There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.”
“But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?”

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