I knew I was going to make one. I wanted to make two, but the first one rattled in and rattled right out.
All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
To see the outside world as the same stuff as our most secret or unknown thoughts is a fine necessity.
The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.
If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.
The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker. . . Labor is the only source of wealth.
Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by. . . . [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?
I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America. " Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.
Not daring to flee since my general location has just been broadcast to any killer who cares. I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag.
Anyone can win two fights in one night, but it is the third fight that tells you if you have steel balls or not.
It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.