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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger - Billy Connolly

~ Sherry Marie Gallagher

Sherry Marie Gallagher 1960S Abuse Adventure American Dream Civil Unrest Contemporary Fiction Counterculture Drama Folk Friendship Immigrants Intimacy Life Literature Love Story Music Positive Ending Recovery Rock N Roll Romance Tragedy Vietnam Visions War

You cannot step a foot into the literature about the 1960s without being told how 'creative', 'idealistic', and 'loving' it was, especially in comparison to the 1950s. I fact, the counterculture of the Sixties represented the triumph of what the art critic Harold Rosenberg famously called the 'herd of the independent minds'. Its so-called creativity consisted in continually recirculating a small number of radical cliches; its idealism was little more than irresponsible utopianism; and its crusading for 'love' was largely a blind for hedonistic self-indulgence.

~ Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball 1960S Counterculture Culture

Hip-hop is storytelling.

~ Raquel Cepeda

Raquel Cepeda Counterculture Culture Hip Hop Storytellers Storytelling Youth Culture

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

~ William S. Burroughs

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Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

~ Raquel Cepeda

Raquel Cepeda 80S Hip Hop Coming Of Age Counterculture Disenfranchisement Hip Hop Lingua Franca Youth Culture

I wish they'd conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn't. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there are. Sometimes at work I get the feeling that it's got to be right up against 100%. I’ll head out to the register to help out during the lunch rush and the new cashier will look so confused and lost, and then I’ll look at the customers she’s supposed to be helping, and they’ll look lost, too, and then when I sneak a glance toward the tables there’ll be all these people staring at their food or at each other with blank looks in their eyes. And I’ll think: Is this just me? Is everybody else actually fine, and I’m just trying to imagine that they’re like me? But I don’t think so. I’ve thought about this a lot, and I’m pretty sure that some ridiculous percentage of the population is walking around feeling like aliens. I think teenagers feel that all the time...

~ John Darnielle

John Darnielle Counter Culture Counterculture Disillusionment Teenagers
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