"Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole."

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Source : "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

Archie Shepp

#Rap Quotes #Roots Quotes #Long Quotes

“I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.”
“I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.”
“I came to feel how far above All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood, All earthly pleasure, all imagined good, Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.154, Jazzybee Verlag
“Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.”
“We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...”
“School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.”

Source : Myla Goldberg (2005). “Bee Season”, Anchor

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