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"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
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"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."
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"I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent."
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"A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you."
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"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."
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"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
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"I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes."
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"My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around."
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"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader."
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"And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited."
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"Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have."
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"Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it."
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"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
Leader
"This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them."
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"My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you."
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"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."
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"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting."
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"The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act."
Truth
"I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains."
Love
"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."
Family
"My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen."
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