“Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.”
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“Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.”
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“If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.”
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“Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.”
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“In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be d...”
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“'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of...”
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