"Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of the African American people who were marginalized."

-- Michael Eric Dyson

#Real Quotes #People Quotes #African American Quotes

“The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.”
“Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.”
“I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.”

Source : "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 201.
“I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery”
“When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.”

Source : Jakob Böhme (1781). “The works ¬of ¬J. ¬Behmen, ¬the ¬teutonic ¬theosopher”
“Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.”
“I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.”

Source : "Mstislav Rostropovich, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 80" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2007.
“Which is one of the dangers of immersion journalism: you can find yourself getting sucked into battles you have nothing to do with, in this case an ongoing battle between Muslims.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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