"As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth."

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Source : "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

Solange Knowles

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“Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.”
“The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
“There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.”
“A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.”
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”

Source : "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.
“As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.”
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
“Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.”

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