#who

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#black #city #complicity #enormous #none

Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#his #literal #literal sense #mandela #me

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#child #children #community #i #need

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration. ↗

— Van Morrison

#belfast #big #did #george #guy

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#became #certainly #deeply #dolls #i

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#because #cannot #emotion #even #find

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#glorified #i #i think #music #other

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#brilliant #doing #enjoy #great #hand

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#before #costs #demanded #had #i

My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#because #emphasis #fell #first #her