"The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning."

-- Willie Dixon

#America Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“The cumulative effect of each person making a change in his or her own life will make a difference.”
“He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.”
“I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing - that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could've told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.”
“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”
“I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.”

Source : "Shooting: Samuel Jackson says fewer guns aren't necessarily the answer" by Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. December 16, 2012.
“I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.”
“I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.”

Source : Gordon Parks (1975). “Moments without proper names”, Studio
“If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.”

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