"When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man."

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Source : Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”

Albert Murray

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“My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.”
“Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.1191, Ravenio Books
“They got love bigger than the Beatles, wild and free like the Rolling Stones.”
“Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
“From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.”
“It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.”

Source : Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (1977). “Seven Servants: Four Works”, Jason Aronson Incorporated
“You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.”
“I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.”

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