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Quote by Wayne Coyne

“I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.”

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Wayne Coyne, born on January 13, 1961, is a renowned American singer-songwriter. He is known for his unique musical style and stage performance, being one of the founding members of the rock band The Flaming Lips. Coyne's musical career is characterized by innovation and experimentation, blending various musical elements such as rock, electronic, folk, and experimental music. more

“We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.”

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Author:Edwidge Danticat

“I know that is absolutely true for people when they are young - you don't want to be alive if the things that you love in your life aren't there.”

People Ifs Knows Want Young Alive

Author:Wayne Coyne

“Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.”

Giving Believe Love Is Pursue This Life

Author:Wayne Coyne

“The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.”