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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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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…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the…
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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…
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I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point…
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We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to…
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it,…
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Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward…
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It is indeed remarkable that the nature of our dealings with our fellowmen will determine, in large measure, our status in the…
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was…
— Plutarch
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Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us…
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If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up…
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