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A dream is a theater in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the producer, the author, the public and the critic.
Carl G. Jung, “General Aspects of Dream Psychology,” 1916

Dare to be free.
Dixie Chicks

The only people for him (Jack Kerouac) who were interesting were the mad people, the mad ones, the ones who were mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawned, all those mad ones. I felt like I fit right into that bunch.
Bob Dylan

[Concerning] the skepticism of identity and commitment to incongruity that William James shared with his brother and with [W.E.B.] Du Bois: ... In [A Pluralistic Universe] James gives up what he calls the logic of identity because reality, life, and experience exceed and overflow our logic, concepts, and definitions: "When we conceptualize, we cut our and fix, and exclude everything that we have not fixed."
Ross Posnock, "Black Intellectuals Past and Present," Raritan Quarterly Review.

The stuff of my being is matter, ever changing, ever moving.
Zora Neal Hurston, in Ross Posnock, "Black Intellectuals Past and Present," Raritan Quarterly Review.

A final consideration: If one sets aside the problems of suppression and distortion and judges Playing in the Dark on its own terms, what is most troubling is [Toni] Morrison's uncritical attitude toward autonomy, authority, power, identity, individualism, coherence.... These concepts are deployed as if they did not all contain their own perils, as if they are meaningful in themselves or can even be possessed in any uncomplicated way.
Ross Posnock, "Black Intellectuals Past and Present," Raritan Quarterly Review.

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