"It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.”
“We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.”
“I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.”
“There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.”

Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
“I think it's only through learning, and doing something uncomfortable, that you can actually change. That's why I wanted to do a play. I was so scared of it and I knew my brain would really be stretched and it was going to be hard. And it was hard and uncomfortable. Instead of naturally wanting to avoid all those feelings I need to lean toward them more. But saying that, don't ask me to make a lasagna or a Coq au vin.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.”
“Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
“We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.”

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