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"Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for."
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"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

"Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth."

"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self's (Soul's) abode, it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti)."

"The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!"

"The one, who does not have the 'poison' of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic)."
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"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."

"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."

"I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back."

"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."

"The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act."

"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed."

"A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before."

"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."

"My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything."
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