“I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.” Quote by Glenn Kotche
“I've always noticed talking about lyrics is like talking about a duality. It's like a Gemini time every time I talk about one line. Because each line, of course, means different things to different people, millions of interpretations. With me, I always see two sides. I just see things split into two.” PeopleMeanDifferentDualityOne Line Author:Devendra Banhart
“We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.” AgePurposeValuable Author:Devendra Banhart
“In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingSometimesFailingIdiotBuddyDisappointKilling YourselfAppease Author:Devendra Banhart
“If you have sensitivity then mysticism will be part of your life. It's a very beautiful thing and a very real thing but it's not something to not take seriously and it's not something to take seriously.” RealBeautifulMysticismBeautiful ThingsSensitivityVery Beautiful Author:Devendra Banhart
“Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.” GivingCountryFailingRiskUnfairJimmy Author:Lawrence Wright
“I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.” ThinkingGivingEmotionalPoliticianWeaknessIsraeliJimmyProvocativeApartheidDouble StandardNuclear Bomb Author:Lawrence Wright
“A hijra is someone who has transitioned from male to female, but we don't consider ourselves female because culturally we belong to a completely different section of society. Many hijras are castrated, but it's not compulsory. They say it's the soul which is hijra. We feel we are neither man nor woman, but we enjoy femininity. I enjoy womanhood, but I am not a woman. It's very confusing.” MenDifferentSoulEnjoyFemaleWomanhoodFemininityConfusing Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“We, hijras, are not hypocrites. We live our sexuality openly, being truthful to our souls and our bodies. Science and doctors assigned something else to us when we were born - which they didn't have the authority to - but we choose what we are and we are very truthful about it.” SoulAuthoritySexualityTruthfulHypocriteBeing Truthful Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our basic dignity." The biggest misery in the world, I believe, is the feeling of being unloved, and that this community faces a lot. You're not even considered to be human. You're considered transparent. We were ignored until we started organizing, when HIV first became a factor. Even in the HIV world, people could not believe that hijras have sex. And then also we were put in the category of men having sex with men, the gay community.” PeopleMenWorldGivingBelieveFeelingsI BelieveCommunityGayDignityMiseryActivismIgnoredUnloved Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“When somebody asks me, "Who are you?" I tell them, "I am the oldest ethnic transgender community in the world, which has its own culture and own religious beliefs." And we are in four countries in South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Terai region of Nepal. What binds us hijras together is the same pain that has gone through our lives, which is much thicker than blood. That's why in our community we don't have old-age homes. Our guru may be horrible, but at the same time, we take care of the guru till the last breath.” WorldCountryHomeCarePainTogetherCultureBeliefCommunityReligiousTake CareHorribleAsk MeGuruTransgenderReligious Belief Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi