"I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker."

-- Bharati Mukherjee

#Years Quotes #Captivity Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
“When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.”
“I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget.”
“If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.”
“When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.”
“I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.”
“There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.”

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