13 July, 2014

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Various: L'afrique Enchantée Kudzanai Chiurai: Dying to be men “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”  
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail

28 June, 2014

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Ferron: Driver Veronique Tadjo: Queen Pokou: Concerto for a Sacrifice “A big lie is easier to sell than a small lie”  
— A high school social studies teacher explaining how politics works 


21 June, 2014

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YG: My Krazy Life George Saunders: Pastoralia “In a word I heard that life’s a cactus tree. If you ever find a way to break its skin, won’t you take a drink for me.”
— Ferron, Cactus Song


14 June, 2014

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Stromae: Racine Carrée Sophocles: The Oedipus Cycle “I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it please the Lord, but you don’t really care for music do you?”
— Leonard Cohen


7 June, 2014

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Bernstein, Sondheim and Robbins: West Side Story Young Jean Lee: The Shipment and Lear

“She must chop my money, chop my money, chop my money, ‘cuz I don’t care”.
— Psquare from Chop my money

10 May, 2014

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A Great Big World: Is there Anybody Out There? Wole Soyinka: You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir “Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don’t have no sense.”  
— Lucille Clifton