"Jazz is people's music, a collectivity."

-- Steve Lacy

#People Quotes #Jazz Quotes #Collectivity Quotes

“If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.”
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”
“Women don't realize how powerful they are”
“Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.”
“In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country.”
“I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.”
“I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.”

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