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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.

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Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
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What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?
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Commercial rock ‘n’ roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.
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Power doesn’t have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.
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Believe Confidence Inspirational Power Trust
God is love, I said, but art’s the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.
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That … is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
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In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.
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Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile, and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
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