"the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die"
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"I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being."
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"pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning"
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"You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket."
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"intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate"
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"she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun"
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"The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence"
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"Come, my love, we have oceans to sail."
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"I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary my destiny. Push down the watered mountains that blemish this soiled soul before the valleys of my conscience get the best of me. I'll need a passport just to simply reach the rest of me. A vaccination for a lesser god's bleak history."
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"I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it."
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"When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds."
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"I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life."
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"Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries."
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"You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to."
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"Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?"
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"I hear the weed is really strong in California."
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"Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on his answering machine telling him there are none. God and I are one. Times moon. Times star. Times sun. The factor is me. You remember me."
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"Vulnerability is power."
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"I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine."
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"I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music."
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