"A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world."

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Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

Haniel Long

#Desire Quotes #Energy Quotes #Wolf Packs Quotes

“You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?”
“I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.”
“Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks”
“The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world â€”â€”- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West â€”â€”- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.”
“Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.”
“A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.”
“I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.”

Source : "Christine Quinn, Gay NYC Mayoral Candidate, Says LGBT Community Is Behind Her" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.
“Never accept a drink from a urologist.”

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