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Jimmy Santiago Baca

"We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He's buffered from being a criminal."

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

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“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

Source : Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.39, Random House
“It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.”
“When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!”
“The nerds provide the toys that distract the morons. So the nerds are sort of the new drug-dealers. We're the drug dealers of the 21st century because we provide all the brain candy for the mouth-breathers, for lack of a better word.”
“While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that led me here today.”
“I'm coming to believe more and more in the truth that everything we do has consequences. A good deed doesn't just evaporate and disappear.”
“Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.”
“There's a point when you're dating someone where you become aware of all the things you kind of thought you couldn't depart from. You kind of build all of these nostalgias and sort of antiquated memories in your mind, and when you're at the point during the breakup, you realise, "you know what, it actually takes a bit more than all this bullshit".”

Source : Source: www.scenewave.com

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