"No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider."

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Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.51, Grove Press

Banana Yoshimoto

#Travel Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I've accepted the fact that Limp Bizkit is my band, one that I'm a part of, a band that I've built from the beginning. It does me no good to be in somebody else's band playing their music, like Marilyn Manson or Korn. Being in Limp Bizkit allows me to be myself.”
“I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.”
“I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.”
“The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind. It rests on the assumption that opposition is the best way to get anything done: The best way to discuss an idea is to set up a debate; the best way to cover news is to find spokespeople who express the most extreme, polarized views and present them as 'both sides'; the best way to settle disputes is litigation that pits one party against the other; the best way to begin an essay is to attack someone; and the best way to show you're really thinking is to criticize.”
“I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.”
“Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 26, 2011
“Music is my friend, no matter where I go.”
“I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.”

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