The Deplorable Kanye West - by Hénock Gugsa

The Deplorable Kanye West

 - by Hénock Gugsa -

Kanye West * said during a TMZ interview he believed slavery to be a “choice.”

“When you hear about slavery for 400 years — for 400 years?” West said. “That sounds like a choice. Like, you was there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all? It’s like we’re mentally in prison.”

TMZ employee Van Lathan replied, “I actually don’t think you’re thinking anything. … 
I think what you’re doing right now is actually the absence of thought.”
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* Source: Marwa Eltagouri, The Washington Post, 05/02/2018

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The Process of Getting Old - by Ursula K. Le Guin

Observations by Ursula K. Le Guin
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“The whole process of getting old—it could have been better arranged. But you do learn some things just by doing them over and over and by getting old doing them. And one of them is, you really need less. And I’m not talking minimalism, which is a highly self-conscious mannerist style I can’t write and don’t want to. I’m perfectly ready to describe a lot and be flowery and emotive, but you can do that briefly and it works better. My model for this is late Beethoven. He moves so strangely and quite suddenly sometimes from place to place in his music, in the late quartets. He knows where he’s going and he just doesn’t want to waste all that time getting there. But if you listen, if you’re with it, he takes you with him. I think sometimes about old painters—they get so simple in their means. Just so plain and simple. Because they know they haven’t got time. One is aware of this as one gets older. You can’t waste time.”

—from a 2013 interview with the Paris Review