"We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too."

-- Quincy Jones

#Block Quotes #Heart Quotes #Ghetto Quotes

“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.
“Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.”

Source : 1914 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, entry 926.
“Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.”
“It must be the body. It's chiseled out of marshmallows.”
“Reputation is what you have when you come to a new community; character is what you have when you go away.”
“The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.”
“When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.”
“Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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