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=//"Profit I" by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982).//=

//Acrylic and spray paint on canvas. 86.5 inches x 157.5 inches.//


=//"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison.//=

© 1980, Vintage International: New York.
//Page 573.//

There is, by the way, an area in which a man's feelings are more rational than his mind, and it is precisely in that area that his will is pulled in several directions at the same time. You might sneer at this, but I know now. I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own...

//Page 576.//

Yes, but what is the next phase? How often have I tried to find it! Over and over again I've gone up above to seek it out. For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism...But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase--still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other...I've come a long way from those days when, full of illusion, I lived a public life and attempted to function under the assumption that the world was solid and all the relationships therein. Now I know men are different and that all life is divided and that only in division is there true health. Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above there's an increasing passion to make men conform to a pattern.

=//"Carry On, My Wayward Son" by Kansas.//=

© 1980, Vintage International: New York.
[|Link to song] Carry on my wayward son There'll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more
 * (Chorus:)

Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I was soaring ever higher But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man Though my mind could think I still was a mad man I hear the voices when I'm dreaming I can hear them say

(Chorus) || Masquerading as a man with a reason My charade is the event of the season And if I claim to be a wise man, well It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean I set a course for winds of fortune But I hear the voices say

(Chorus)

Carry on, you will always remember Carry on, nothing equals the splendor The center lights around your vanity But surely heaven waits for you

(Chorus) ||

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