„Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin'
He wouldn't let this be.“

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— Michael Jackson

HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

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americký popový, soulový a rockový spevák 1958 - 2009

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„Then sing as Martin Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang,
“Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long.”“

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— William Makepeace Thackeray novelist 1811 - 1863

A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

„Now if we do wanna live the thug life and the gangsta' life and all that, OK, so stop being cowards and let's have a revolution. But we don't wanna do that, dudes just wanna live "character", they wanna be "cartoons", but if they really wanted to do something, they was that tuff, alright, let's start our own country, let's start a revolution, let's get outta' here, let's do something. But they don't wanna do that, they wanna pimp our communities and portray this image that they know we all can't survive and make, and that's what I saw.“

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— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

„The one thing I don't wanna be is, I don't wanna be forgotten. And I think I've done a pretty good job of that.“

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— Cameron Duncan New Zealand filmmaker 1986 - 2003

Strike Zone

„Do I believe in God? Do I believe in me?
Some people wanna die so they can be free
(I said) Life is just a game, we're all just the same…do you wanna play?“

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— Prince American pop, songwriter, musician and actor 1958 - 2016

Controversy
Song lyrics, Controversy (1981)

„I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.“

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— Sherilyn Fenn American actress 1965

Sherilyn Fenn, quoted in "Sherilyn and Sherilyn Alike", by Dale Brasel. Detour (USA). May 1995. p. 46-50.

„On all levels of life and as each day unfolds, respect for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. grows impressively, and the essence of this respect is the fact that he had deeper insights than most of us have appreciated. It is not mere poetry to call him prophetic.“

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— Harry Belafonte American singer 1927

"Martin Luther King, Jr : A Personal Tribute" in Freedomways Vol. 12, No. 1 (1972); also in Freedomways Reader : Prophets in their own Country (2000) By Esther Cooper Jackson and Constance Pohl, p. 378
Kontext: On all levels of life and as each day unfolds, respect for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. grows impressively, and the essence of this respect is the fact that he had deeper insights than most of us have appreciated. It is not mere poetry to call him prophetic. The accuracy of his prophecies is almost uncanny.
By the early 1950's history had endowed him with a sense of the precise moment that Black people were ready for mass action, ready for its risks, and ready for its responsibilities.

„I made a metamorphose, I'm a new person today, because I used to strongly and honestly, honestly! I feel like I can represent my generation so much because I honestly did not care whether I lived or died. But now I can not die, with people thinking I'm a rapist or a criminal, I can not leave until this shit is straight, you know I'm not suicidal. I can't go until ya'll really know what time it is. And then after that, BOOM!, It's all over and we can see how this shit fall, but that's how it is, and the reason being is because if I can't live free, if I can't live with the same respect as the next man, I don't wanna be here, because god has cursed me to see what life should be like, If God wanted me to be this person and be happy here, he wouldn't let me feel so oppressed, he wouldn't let me feel so trampled on, you know what I'm saying, he wouldn't let me think the things I think. So I feel I'm doing Gods work, you know what I'm saying just because I don't have nothing to pass around for people to put money in a bucket don't mean I ain't doing God's work.“

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— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

„Don't let your heart depend on things
That ornament life in a fleeting way!
He who possesses, let him learn to lose,
He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.“

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— Friedrich Schiller, The Bride of Messina

Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act IV, sc. iv (1803)

„Let us work without reasoning," said Martin; "it is the only way to make life endurable.“

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— Voltaire French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694 - 1778

Citas, Candide (1759)

„I don't wanna do this no mo', but this the only thing that I know.“

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— Pimp C Deceased American rapper, 1/2 of UGK 1973 - 2007

Living this Life
Works with UGK, Underground Kingz (2007)

„It's a livin' thing.
It's a terrible thing to lose.
It's a given thing.
What a terrible thing to lose.“

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— Jeff Lynne British rock musician 1947

Livin' Thing
A New World Record (1976)

„If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done.“

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— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965

TV Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIX4QMIiOw [date needed], also quoted in Ice Cube: Attitude (2002) by Joel McIver, p. 177

„Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.“

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— Richard Wright African-American writer 1908 - 1960

Native Son (1940)

„I'll tell ya the one thing you don't wanna buy at the dollar store - toilet paper. (laughs) I might as well have just used the dollar.“

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— Larry the Cable Guy American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist 1963

Tailgate Party (2009)

„There's alot of things I want, a lot of things that I'd like to be.
But girl, I don't foresee a rags-to-riches story for me.
There's just one little dream I've got to come true;
There's just one round I've gotta win,
I can't be a loser with you.
Baby, baby, once in my life, let me get what I want,
Girl, don't let me down!
Just once in my life, let me hold on to one good thing I found!“

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— Carole King Nasa 1942

Just Once in My Life (1965), co-written with Gerry Goffin and Phil Spector, first recorded by The Righteous Brothers
Song lyrics, Singles

„Agnes Martin often speaks of joy; she sees it as the desired condition of all life. Who would disagree with her?… No-one who has seriously spent time before an Agnes Martin, letting its peace communicate itself, receiving its inexplicable and ineffable happiness, has ever been disappointed. The work awes, not just with its delicacy, but with its vigor, and this power and visual interest is something that has to be experienced.“

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— Wendy Beckett British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art 1930 - 2018

Sister Wendy Beckett, in her book American Masterpieces, about American painter Agnes Martin.

„I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a. m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.“

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— Morrissey English singer 1959

In interviews etc., About himself and his work
Zdroj: from "Stop me if you've heard this one before", interview by Len Brown in NME (20 February 1988)