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