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“The mind is like a well-endowed museum, only a small fraction of its holdings on view at any one time.”
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“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”
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“I was taught to be anti-Jewish.”
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“Every animal has its own intelligence and sensitivities. They're all lovely, worthwhile, and deserving of our respect.”
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“The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.”
Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.21, BookBaby
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“It's really helped a ton in the sense that we get to reach people who don't normally know our music. At least once a night at a show someone will come up to the merch table after the show and say they've never heard of me but they saw me on Troubadour, TX, and it reminds me that I'm not Elvis and anything I can do to get my name out there is beneficial in every way.”
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“When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.”
Source : "Amiri Baraka: Poet Laureate" by Saul Williams, www.thefader.com. November 2004. 
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“What else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?”
Source : Elliot Perlman (2012). “The Street Sweeper”, p.169, Penguin
