Let's play the drums in the subway station too! It is not others who are forbidding us, it is we who are forbidding ourselves.
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Four beats? Three beats?
Donna 2022-04-20 09:02:09
European classical music is like a flowing stream, like a spot of sunlight projected on the ground through the leaves, and it speaks implicitly, hesitantly, and bitterly. African music does not have so many tricks, they beat life with the rhythm of the beating of the heart; they are played not because they are reserved, hesitant, or depressed, but because they should love life and play them because they are alive. They have only one question: shouldn't life be like this? And we don't have this question, and we forbid others to have this question. What's more embarrassing is that we have more other questions.
Let's play the drums in the subway station too! It is not others who are forbidding us, it is we who are forbidding ourselves.
Let's play the drums in the subway station too! It is not others who are forbidding us, it is we who are forbidding ourselves.
Extended Reading
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Ronald Cole: Sir?
Prof. Walter Vale: Yes? Did you find him?
Ronald Cole: He's been removed.
Prof. Walter Vale: Removed to where?
Ronald Cole: Deported.
Prof. Walter Vale: Deported? When?
Ronald Cole: He was deported this morning.
Prof. Walter Vale: How can that be? No, he - Um, sir, is there any way that I could contact him?
Ronald Cole: I don't think so.
Prof. Walter Vale: You don't think so? What kind of an answer is that?
Ronald Cole: I'm sorry, sir. That's all the information that I have. Now, please step away from the window. You can contact I.C.E. if you have any further questions. The number's on the wall. Sir? Step away from the window, please. Sir. For the last time, step away... from the window.
Prof. Walter Vale: [Walks up to the phone number on the wall, walks back to the window] You can't just take people away like that. Do you hear me? He was a good man, a good person. It's not fair! We are not just helpless children! He had a life! Do you hear me? I mean, do YOU hear ME? What's the matter with you?
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Tarek Khalil: Oh shit! We have to get home! Zainab's gonna kill me, I'm on Arab time again.
Prof. Walter Vale: What is "Arab time"?
Tarek Khalil: It means I'm late by an hour. All Arabs are late by an hour, it's genetic, we can't help it.