"Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened."

-- Archie Shepp

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“Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.”
“My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.”

Source : Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan
“I've been number two in films for donkey's years.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.”
“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1901). “Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People”, p.1004, Library of Alexandria
“I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.”
“Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.”
“I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.”

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