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Quotes

33by people from here

I was born by the river In a little tent And just like the river I've been runnin' ever since It's been a long, a long time comin' But I know a change gon' come.

A Change Is Gonna Come · 1964

★ 7.0

Personal journal

Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

1962

★ 5.3

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

1965

★ 5.3

The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done."

Theodore Roszak

The Making of the Counter Culture · 1969

★ 5.2

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Art

18held here

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

1886★ 9.2

Nighthawks

1942★ 8.9

American Gothic

1930★ 8.3

The Old Guitarist

1904★ 7.8

Paris Street; Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte

1877★ 7.6

Wheatstacks (End of Summer)

1891★ 7.3

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Movies

12set or made here

Hoop Dreams

1994★ 7.5

The Sting

George Roy Hill

1973★ 7.0

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

1986★ 6.8

The Untouchables

1987★ 6.6

The Blues Brothers

1980★ 6.1

The Interrupters

2011★ 5.7

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Books

7set here

Native Son

1940★ 7.2

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser

1900★ 7.0

The Adventures of Augie March

1953★ 7.0

The Jungle

1906★ 6.7

Black Boy

1945★ 6.7

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

1959★ 6.4

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Songs

3from the scene here

Mannish BoyMuddy Waters

Mannish Boy

1955★ 8.1

Hoochie Coochie Man

1954★ 7.7

(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher

1967★ 7.1