"How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity."

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Source : 1958 Statement on sleeve of Freedom Suite.

Sonny Rollins

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.”
“Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich (1991). “Newspaper Days”, p.69, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.”

Source : Song: Let's Dance, Album: Let's Dance, 1983
“The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be proud of. They're just a sacred trust... Having been given, I must give. Man shall not live by bread alone, and what the farmer does I must do. I must feed the people - with my songs.”
“Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.”
“Get your hand off me,â€ I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. â€œIâ€™m a professional, not some distraught girlfriend.â€ Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene.”
“I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.”
“Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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