"Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality."

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Source : "Sun Ra: Stranger from Outer Space" by Mike Walsh, missioncreep.com.

Sun Ra

#Space Quotes #Magic Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.”

Source : Jesmyn Ward (2011). “Salvage the Bones: A Novel”, p.277, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.”
“Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it”
“Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.”
“The more you understand what you're dealing with, the stronger you get. People see fear as a bad thing. Fear is healthy when you're dealing with Amerika. But when fear controls you, when you're afraid to struggle fear is a bad thing. I'm more afraid of what will happen if I don't struggle, than what will happen if I do”
“Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.”
“I fell in love with the art of acting back when I was 10 years old, actually.”
“How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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