"Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand."

Source: SIR MIX-A-LOT: The Forward-Thinking Hip-Hop Icon Is Getting Back Into The Entertainment Industry. Interview with Nick Hughes, www.businessinsider.com. June 22, 2011.