"I worry about the direction of the world. I worry about a culture where only the physically or materially dominant have the right to speak. Each generation needs an art form to license male vulnerability. If maleness comes to symbolize raw competition, how do males learn to offer love, brotherly support and simple humanity? You could call me a serious person. A serious guy. I'm serious about tweaking myself. I've always been serious that way, trying to evolve to a more conscious state. Funny thing about that, though. You tweak yourself, looking for more love, less lust, more compassion, less jealousy. You keep tweaking, keep adjusting those knobs until you can no longer find the original settings. In some sense, the original settings are exactly what I'm looking for--a return to the easy-going guy I was before my world got complicated, the nice guy who took things as they came and laughed so hard the blues would blow away in the summer wind."
--from the liner notes on The Best of Bill Withers, Lean on Me
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