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Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower. ”
A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. ”
Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black people.' But if I'm talking about a person, I'm going to say 'a Negro,' because I was taught to say that, and I don't see any reason to change it. I don't think that gives pride or anything else. I don't think you get pride by calling yourself this or that. ”
I try not to think too hard about music. I like to see where it goes. I try not to give it a direction. I figure out what it is as it's forming. I don't have any goal in mind other than to make the best music I can. ”
You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have. ”
If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues. ”
More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy. ”
Each transfer brings a change to the dressing room that I must protect - that is my job. ”
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ”
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. ”