"James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world."

-- Amiri Baraka

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“Fools make news, and wise men carry it.”
“A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.”
“The very best pictures adapt themselves to many changes in meaning.”
“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”
“As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any consistency urge that other nations not be allowed to acquire theses weapons.”
“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”
“The American psychologist Julian Jaynes, in a controversial study on the origin of consciousness, argued that the bicameral mind - in which one of the hemispheres becomes specialized in silent reading - is a late development in humankind's evolution, and that the process by which this function develops is still changing.”
“I guess I am trying to get the point across that all of us are in need of salvation; that we are dead in our spirits and minds and need the grace that has been offered-no matter how good we think we are.”

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