"In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world."

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Source : "Songs and freedom in West Papua" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2011.

Jay Griffiths

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“Black musicians rhythmicized the contredanse, creating musical styles which evolved into the habanera (also known as the tango) and, later, ragtime, as well as the danza, danzÃ³n, and ultimately the danzÃ³n mambo and its offspring the cha-cha-chÃ¡.”
“With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.”
“A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.”
“A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that gives you some respite from the inexorable tightening of the screw every year - rent. But that puts you on this treadmill where you are constantly thinking, "Should I sell this place and move somewhere cheaper?" Artists have migrated across the East River and eastward in Brooklyn - as have non-artist populations, apparently going back to the Lenape Indians. There's been a migration to New Jersey, to Philadelphia, and farther afield.”
“I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.”
“I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.”
“The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.”

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