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The biggest compliment that I receive is when other black folks come up to me and say, 'You changed the way that I thought about Chris Darden.'


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BRUCE STERLING We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with...
BRUCE STERLING I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better med...
BRUCE STERLING I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was...
BRUCE STERLING One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
BRUCE STERLING The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for variou...
BRUCE STERLING Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to.
J. STERLING Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a ...
BRUCE STERLING Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes.
BRUCE STERLING You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something..." ...
J. STERLING The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them...
BRUCE STERLING «Brixie wasn’t talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in h...
BRUCE STERLING «“Everybody is in trouble with my dad. My dad only sort of gets the Internet. My dad started look...
BRUCE STERLING «She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases th...
BRUCE STERLING «Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it w...
BRUCE STERLING I like them because they had some success last year. They beat Kansas in the first round last year.
LEE STERLING We were all sitting around at the staging area and talking to the boys from Springhill, La. We were ...
RONNIE STERLING They were bumping into each other all the time.
ROBERT STERLING Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful
J. STERLING A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K. Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and o...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, an...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes fo...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
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