"If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery. Spirituals, rap music - that would be the space we'd find American landays in."

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Eliza Griswold

#Rap Quotes #Legacy Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.”
“Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.”
“I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.”
“I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.”
“Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?”
“Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.”
“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”
“I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town.”

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