"They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements."

-- Max Roach

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“Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).”
“You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.”

Source : "Leader of China Angrily Chastises Hong Kong Media" by Mark Landler, www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2000.
“It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.”
“Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
“There is a good deal in a man's mode of eating.”
“Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.”
“The sergeant is the Army.”
“Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?”

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