"I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music."

-- Ben Harper

#Boys Quotes #California Quotes #Kind Quotes

“We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world about the American Black man.”
“My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.”
“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
“If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.”
“For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task of building up an ethical system in which justice for animals is regarded as the norm rather than the exception. Our only hope is to put our focus on the education of the young.”
“Hatred can be overcome only by love.”
“Freud also said we choose our own neuroses. Capitalism is the neurosis of humanity.”
“During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.”

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