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

19 April, 2014

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Miles Davis: Kind of Blue Gretchen Rubin: The Happiness Project “Why indeed must ‘God’ be a noun?  Why not a verb?”
— Mary Daly

12 April, 2014

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2Pac: All Eyez on Me Chris Abani: The Virgin of Flames “If you don’t answer my calls I’m going to massage a crocodile at the zoo (a dead one).” 
— A Zimbabwean friend telling me he’s angry because I didn’t pick up his call.


5 April, 2014

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Digable Planets: Blowout Comb Tracy Letts: August, Osage County “You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception . . . We’re ugly but we have the music.”
— Chelsea Hotel by Leonard Cohen sung by Meshell Ndegeocello. 


29 March, 2014

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Maria Callas: Legend Sandra Saayman: Breyten Breytenbach, A Monologue in Two Voices “ Malala pipes”
— A derogatory expression in South Africa to say someone is useless, referring to homeless boys and girls who live in big concrete pipes.