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“No You Can't Meet Iggy”
― Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist
― Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist
“Baby, you could be Jesus in drag but if you're brown they're sure you're selling.”
― To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
― To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
“about as helpful as make-up to a leper”
― Letter to Jimmy
― Letter to Jimmy
“I've done everything from helping old people to pee to taking out their garbage to chasing their escaped pets. We are the poor man's ambulance, and we are also, sad to say, the poor man's priest, our cab the confessional in which people litmus-test their wildest fears and prejudices.”
― The Last Taxi Driver
― The Last Taxi Driver
“Vertigo is the fight in your mind between the part that wants to save you and the part that wants to fall.”
― The Last King of California
― The Last King of California
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