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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."
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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
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"A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction."
"Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, commit it to my memory only to disappear when I needed it. Write your ideas as they come, if you wait it will be too long and you may not recover it. It may get destroyed as it is to seed to and fro in the ever rushing river of our thoughts."
"I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing."
"Jack and I usually get together and sit around in the afternoons and start throwing ideas around."
"Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts."
"I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry."
"A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted."
"Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas."
"I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working."
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