Matthias
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“Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you”
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“When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics.”
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“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird

My own music compilations accompanying some of my favourite books. The goal is to express/intensify a certain mood, feeling or historical/geographical ...more
Matthias’s 2024 Year in Books
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Biography, Business, Crime, Humor and Comedy, Music, Non-fiction, Psychology, Science, Sports, and Young-adult
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