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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#invented #like #maze #obstacles #ones

I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again. ↗

— Bobby Sherman

#fans #friends #i #lot #love

....let her be loved not only for her beauty and amiable character, but also for her strength of mind and loftiness of purpose, which enliven and raise the feeble and the timid and ward off all vain thoughts. Let her be the pride of her country and let her command respect. ↗

— Jose Rizal y Alonso

#country #love #purpose-of-living #strength #women

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#i #kid #me #reminds #something

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#available #bar #become #beer #black

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#involved #music #themselves #traditional #whites

I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#cognitive #emotionally #find #generally #here

In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#brief #coltrane #completely #considered #country

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#becoming #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #establishment

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#american #before #community #hispanic #hispanic community