"what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost"

-- Amiri Baraka

“Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.”
“Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.”
“I eat a lot of chocolate.”
“If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”
“Today, what is important for us is to realize that the old sacred ways are correct, and that if we do not follow them we will be lost and without a guide.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.76, University of Oklahoma Press
“I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.”
“I think I came alive when I started photography.”

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