I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win.
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her. I run wildly in the direction of the voice, heedless of danger, ripping through vines and branches, through anything that keeps me from reaching her. From reaching my little sister.