"Music is a spiritual thing, you don't play with music. If you play with music you will die young. You see, because when the higher forces give you the gift of music...musicians hip, it must be well used for the gift of humanity."

-- Fela Kuti

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“Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.”
“And wilt thou sing the shadowy hosts that never march again?”

Source : Harry Kemp (1914). “The Cry of Youth”
“A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.”
“I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.”
“As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.”
“Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.”
“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.”

Source : Jack Lynch (2009). “The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”

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