"I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question."

-- Cornel West

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“I love Nashville, and I love the South, but on a professional level, I had started feeling smothered by the Nashville way of doing things.”
“Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.”
“My dream is to be Endora in Bewitched. That's the part I want to do. I want to do a fabulous old woman. I want to be Maggie Smith someday. Not exactly like her, but that genre. I like that kind of humor - sophisticated, vain stuff.”

Source : "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.
“I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“I see wings dancing around me Beleive in your dreams.”
“If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I never thought I'd be investigating global warming. I believe it's real and that saving the planet is good.”
“It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.”

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