"I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have."

-- Natalie Goldberg

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“In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims. We must maintain freedom of thought, and never accept anything of purely human authority into our heads. When we are presented with a diversity of opinions, we must choose, if we can; if we cannot, we must remain in doubt.”
“I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.”
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
“I think that I learned music. And also you learn recommendations that you can use in your life. When you travel, you all the time remember what your mother teach you. You know in the African family the mother has a big role to play because the father is outside in the fields or going to work.”
“First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.”

Source : Eva Hesse, Brigitte Reinhardt, Friederike Kitschen (1994). “Eva Hesse: drawing in space : Bilder und Reliefs”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach (2008). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.274, Cosimo, Inc.
“I think there's just been this "thing" that's developed, this way that we have of talking about our music that alienates people. And I fall into that too! I learned that in graduate school. You just talk about your music in a specific way, and that separates people from you. But some composers like that. Schoenberg liked that. He wanted to feel that he was making music for an elite few. That's fine for him, but I want to set myself free from that sort of attitude.”

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