"Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it rip."

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Source : Ned Sublette (2007). “Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo”, p.472, Chicago Review Press

Ned Sublette

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“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”
“The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.”

Source : "Ever the Warrior / Gay rights icon Harry Hay has no patience for assimilation" by Dan Levy, www.sfgate.com. June 23, 2000.
“You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!”
“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
“What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.”

Source : "Jeremy Renner Talks James Gray’s LOW LIFE; Says Steve McQueen Biopic Will Focus More on Personal Aspect than Stunts". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 1, 2011.
“I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.”

Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.134, Faber & Faber
“The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.3, Basic Books

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