"The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters."

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Source : Kenneth B. Clark (1989). “Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

Kenneth Clark

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“I mean that's something we're very conscious of when writing. Tempos are very important. Like "Oh we can't play the song too fast because people aren't going to feel it." There's a pulse to a song. You can't play it too slow. We're always trying to find the perfect tempo.”
“You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Life is about growing, but it's also about making peace with who you are.”
“What the mind can believe, you can achieve.”
“To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (â€œThe Medusaâ€)”
“And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it â€” it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so.”
“I got by as a musician since day one. I don't live beyond my means. I have real cheap tastes.”

Source : "Q&A WITH CHRIS ISAAK : So '60s Square, So '90s Cool". Interview with Jean Rosenbluth, articles.latimes.com. April 21, 1993.
“With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory “Annotated Le Morta D'Arthur King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Vol I with English Grammar Exercises: by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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