If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.
Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.
I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.
Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood. And we never grow out of it.
When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
A lot of the so-called systems composers have this thing that the system is always right. You don't fiddle with it at all. Well, I don't think that. I think the system is as right as you judge it to be. If for some reason you don't like a bit of it you must trust your intuition on that. I don't take a doctrinaire approach to systems.