Imaginary Mockingbird

“Some give the impression they go on living only because it's a habit they cannot shake”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

“I worry I’m surrounded by madmen who desire to burn the world down without thought for the consequences of their actions, without regard for all the innocent lives that will be charred by the flames.”
― Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana

“Style would make you friends, inspire loyalty and devotion, spawn a hundred imitators. It would make you enemies, unleash jealousy and fear, bring down the brute force of authority. The one thing style would never leave you was neutral. As King KASE 2 would say in the movie Style Wars, “When they see you got a vicious style, they wanna get loose about it. And that’s what keeps it going.”
― Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

“Organized ghting doesn’t make sense to me,” she said. “Why would you want to let yourself get hurt if you didn’t have to? And why would you want to hurt an innocent person who you’re not even mad at, who you don’t even know?”
― Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club