#ny

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it. ↗

— John Keegan

#africa #anything #become #black #extremely

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#i #inhale #trust #who

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. ↗

— Michael Tippett

#any #art #music #native #performing

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion. ↗

— John Keegan

#about #beliefs #bothered #century #depressed

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough. ↗

— Christine Keeler

#could #enough #found #good #i

But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material. ↗

— Ben Folds

#almost #any #back #center #go

No Child Left Behind widens the gap between the races more than any piece of educational legislation I've seen in 40 years. It denies inner-city kids the critical-thinking skills to interrogate reality. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#behind #between #child #denies #educational

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#because #control #easily #educated #general

Really, it's only been since the '70s that Canadians have had any pride in their country. ↗

— Dave Foley

#been #canadians #country #had #only

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#basically #fires #fuel #guy #i