"Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop"

-- Jakob Dylan

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“It is a much easier thing to unloose the demon war than to chain him up again.”
“See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God. Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.”
“We Americans are a peculiar people. We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.”
“Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“The partition of India in 1947 legitimized the forces of masculinist nationalism and enabled hatred for the "other" to irreparably mutilate a shared anti-colonial legacy and cultural heritage so systematically that the wounds inflicted by the partition are yet to heal.”
“You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.”
“There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.”

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