"When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating the way oppressed peoples of this earth imagine themselves in their dreams."

-- John Edgar Wideman

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“Other people want a career or success because they think that will help them find their personal life somewhere. I've done it the other way around. What I have is what everybody else is looking for. I know I've got it made. I know I'm a very lucky man. That came first. Then the music and the career just kind of took care of themselves.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.
“Making mistakes is a way of taking action.”
“In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!”
“Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.”
“It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small”
“Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.”
“Hunting is doing business with animals.”

Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”
“Hollywood is not good when it comes to age”

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