"New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you wonâ€™t hit Charlesâ€™s mate in front of his father."

-- Patricia Briggs

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“This is a tradition of resistance to the term that's as old as the term itself, especially because that term has been used to commodify and reduce black creativity, and also to appropriate and sell it. That's what John Coltrane said in an interview with a Japanese journalist: "Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist." And he's treated as one of the central figures in the history of jazz. So if he rejected it, then why is it weird when I do it? I'm in the tradition!”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.”
“You know what I'll do? I'll get a knife and cut out his tongue, and we'll send it to his wife”
“I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”

Source : Katherine Rundell (2013). “Rooftoppers”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.”
“One face is given to us by god. The other,we make ourselves”
“Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.”
“Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.”

Source : Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

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