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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."
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"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."
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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."
Culture
"We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that."
Art
"Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting."
Art
"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."
Art
"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."
Choice
"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."
Mother
"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion."
Education
"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
"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."
Patriotism
"I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs."
Leader
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