I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the … - Claudia Rankine

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No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

Claudia Rankine

I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.

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Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

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I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

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You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

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Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

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So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those kinds of moments. And initially people would say, "I don't think I have any. " Their initial reaction was to render invisible those moments weaved into a kind of everydayness.

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Conan O'Brien

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

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A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, Yes, someone like me can do this.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

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Oliver E. Williamson

The study of economic organization commonly proceeds as though market and administrative modes of organization were disjunct. Market organization is the province of economists. Internal organization is the concern of organization theory specialist. And never the twain shall meet.

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