Gerald Nicosia quotes

“We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.”
-- Gerald Nicosia

Source : "50 years later, 'Howl' still resonates". www.today.com. October 6, 2005.

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“Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.”
-- Gerald Nicosia

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“You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.”
-- Gerald Nicosia

Source : "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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“People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.”
-- Gerald Nicosia

Source : "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.”

“We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress.”

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”

“Silence is the deadliest weapon of mass destruction.”

“The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.”