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Todd Boyd
"I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it." --
Source : Todd Boyd (2004). “The New H. N. I. C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop”, p.9, NYU Press
Todd Boyd
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“The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.”
“My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury.”
Source : "Alonzo King: Dancing Between the Lines". Interview with Fisher Jack, www.eurweb.com. June 17, 2013.
“Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?”
“Hang 'em first, try 'em later.”
“Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.”
“A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.”
Source : "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.
“If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, not democracy.”
“The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.”
