"I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me."

-- Abbey Lincoln

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“[On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.”
“Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like ***** overload if you ask me.”
“Then I'm going?" Kendra asked. The adults in the room exchanged tacit glances before nodding. Then we only have one more problem left to discuss," Seth said. Everyone turned to him. How do I get invited”
“...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.”
“Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.”
“The one thing I find about singers in the business is that they often don't get the right education. I hear a lot of them singing and when they get to 30, 40 years old they wont be able to sing because they are not properly trained. A lot of people singing from their throat instead of singing from their diaphragm.”

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“I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.”
“Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.”

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