Jayne Cortez quotes
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“Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.”
-- Jayne CortezSource : Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr
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“In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.”
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“I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old flames between the musk of fat and the side pocket of my mink tongue.”
-- Jayne CortezSource : Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr
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Source : Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai (2004). “Envisioning an Empowered Nation: Technology for Societal Transformation”, TATA McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
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“I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.”
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“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”
Source : "Character: Albert Collins". "Adventures in Babysitting", www.imdb.com. 1987.
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