"I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself."

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Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.334, Macmillan

Cory Doctorow

#Years Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Whole Life Quotes

“I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!”
“Also, in your 20s, if you are beautiful, everything comes to you, so you never need to develop a personality. I never had that problem.”
“Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct â€“ the same way punk did.”
“If a person uses the word 'sorry' loosely then of course it loses its value.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Ciara on One Woman Army, Being Vulnerable and Who Her New Song 'Sorry' is Really About". Interview with Yolanda Sangweni, www.essence.com. September 10, 2012.
“What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I can say the Lord's prayer in 10 seconds.”
“Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland”
“In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.”

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