All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
JAMES BALDWINIt is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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