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“Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”
― Cornel West

“I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.”
― Cornel West, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir

“I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.”
― James Lee Burke, Creole Belle

“Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.”
― Buddy Guy

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
― Mark Twain

“James Brown hid everything, and in the game of instant information he lost big-time, because the information machine turns a truth into a lie and a lie into the truth, transforms superstitions and stereotypes into fact with such ease and fluidity that after a while you get to believing as I do, that the media is not a reflection of the American culture but rather is teaching it. As long as James Brown was selling records he let that craziness run. He didn't care. The media worked in his favor and helped fuel his success. But it killed his public reputation and once the success was gone once the head disappeared, the body followed.”
― James McBride, Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way to Santa Monica.”
― James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger

“For the dead and the living,
we must bear witness.

Engraved upon the wall of the U.S. Holocaust Museum Washington D.C.”
― Eli Wiesel

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“The soft life is what I'm settling into and the only question is how deadly it will turn out to be.”
― Don DeLillo, Zero K

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
― H.L. Mencken

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein