"I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond all doubt that we are master musicians of our instruments. Now what we have to do is employ our skill to tell the dramatic story of our people and what we've been through,"

-- Max Roach

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“What happened there was they were moving the chains and we had the call made. We were really trying to get two plays if we could have rather than use the timeout thereafter.”
“I think when I was doing my very first interviews, I probably brought a notepad and did ask people my first fifteen questions while sitting in a Starbucks or something horrible like that. And I found that, oftentimes, the most important thing at the very first interview is just establishing a personal connection and developing some sort of rapport so that I can go back to them again, and then maybe again, and maybe again after that.”
“That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.”
“That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.132, Macmillan
“What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of MoliÃ¨re, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of PixÃ©rÃ©court? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?”
“Ready to be humiliated, Wanda?" Wes taunted. "You may have taken the planet, but you're losing this game.”
“Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.”
“It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.”

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