"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."

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Source : Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.20, Penguin

Huey Newton

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“You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology”
“I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can't technically keep you out, but please stay at home.”
“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

Source : Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.”
“I love America, but I don't like it.”
“Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.44, Macmillan
“I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.”
“Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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