Wadada Leo Smith Quotes
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
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For the love of God, will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars?
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For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
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Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
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Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
