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Joe Strummer
“If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway.”
Joe Strummer, The Clash Anthology

Kevin Armstrong
“A tawdry realm of shifting, insecure employment and fleeting glimpses of high reward for little effort. A world where strings are pulled by complete cretins while those who work hard at the creative coalface are at the bottom of a steaming dunghill of vacuity, broken dreams, and empty promises.”
Kevin Armstrong, Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist

Jordan Harper
“Vertigo is the fight in your mind between the part that wants to save you and the part that wants to fall.”
Jordan Harper, The Last King of California

Lorraine Hansberry
“I suppose that the most heroic expression that I have ever seen was on the face of a certain tough-looking, brutalized, slum-slaughtered woman at Coney Island. She had her arm around a girl child who looked hardly less brutalized and slum-slaughtered - "We is going to have a good time tonight!" the look said.”
Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography

Colson Whitehead
“On the wall at Elizabeth's office they had a map of the United States and the Caribbean with pins and red marker to indicate the cities and towns and routes that Black Star promoted. Stay on the path and you'll be safe, eat in peace, sleep in peace, breath in peace and beware. Work together and you can subvert their evil order. It was a map if the black nation inside the white world, part of the bigger thing but its own self, independent, with its own constitution. If we did not help one another we'd be lost out there.”
Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

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