"The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz."

-- John Lewis

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“Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart”
“The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.”
“You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.”
“What can I say? I hate Bush; I despise him and his entire administration, everything he represents and everything he has tried to do, not only internationally, which is horrific, but domestically as well. In my country the atmosphere is poisoned. Unbreathable for those of us who are not on the right. So thank you for inviting me to this festival and allowing me to leave there for a few days.”
“There are great challenges ahead of us, giant opportunities to be met. I welcome that exciting prospect and feel to say to the Lord, humbly, 'Give me this MOUNTAIN,' give me these challenges.”
“I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.”

Source : Ta-Nehisi Coates (2008). “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood”, p.220, Spiegel & Grau
“After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.”

Source : "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".
“If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.”

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