"The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together."

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Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

Septima Poinsette Clark

#Freedom Quotes #Air Quotes #Together Quotes

“Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.”
“Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.”
“The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.”

Source : Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”
“[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.”
“Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.”
“Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.”
“Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.”
“Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.”

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