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Scripture is Jazz
“A poet’s work…To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking….And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things — childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves — that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.”
― Salman Rushdie
Stabbed ten times at the Chautauqua Institution… he is off the ventilator and conscious. What point art, people ask? Well, if people weren’t so afraid of it they wouldn’t try to strangle it.
— Rhiannon Giddens
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Each line on a Native American’s face is a badge of honor, every line holds sacred knowledge from their experiences in this life….For honor and respect were shown to these elders, and the more lines meant more knowledge to share. For these Elders usually had the last word for the most important decisions for the well being of their Nation….We did not see beauty as young appearance but saw beauty and gave reverence to these lines.
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If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite…
