"I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me."

-- Bunker Roy

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #India Quotes

“You cannot appreciate the beauty of the sky at night without these five shining lights.”
“I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made”
“I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.”
“The sun has not yet set for all time.”
“I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know. I only know there has been your mind here and my mind here, and the afternoons have been like none I can remember.”
“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.”

Source : "Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.
“I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.”

Source : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.8, Penguin
“Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.”

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