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Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life
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― Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
― Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
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As for me, I admire above all Noble Drew's aesthetic, his unique and special blend of Afro-American, Native-American, High Magical, and Oriental symbolism and imagery - as well as his courage, his martyrdom, and his revolutionary stance against "Pharaoh." By Americanizing the prophetic spirit he injected our culture with a kind of folk Sufism. On the esoteric level, anyone who loves Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom, and Justice is a member of the "Asiatic race" and the Lost/Found Moorish Nation of No
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― Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam
― Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam