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That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#black #black music #could #did #enjoy

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#flattered #i #man #me #picks

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#dreams #hero #hopes #reality #symbol

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#back #billion #go #invented #keep

I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day. ↗

— Brande Roderick

#baywatch #being #day #i #over

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#different perspective #doing #fiction #future #little

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#five #get #idiot #including #larger

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#even #gives #hear #i #might

You know what, I'm probably one of the most blessed people there's ever been, and I thank God for it. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#blessed #ever #god #i #know

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#cars #diamonds #furs #human #human beings