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"When I walk around with my friends, it’s a very, very interesting community"
"We speak Portuguese slang, Angolan slang, some words in Cape Verdean Crioulo, and of course some English. In Crioulo there are already English and French words. This is because slaves from all over the world had to communicate and didn’t speak the same languages. We are a metisse culture."
"Our generation feels very lost because there is no culture specifically for us; that talks about our reality."
"There is a big, big generation of Cape Verdeans and other Africans here in Lisbon, in Paris, in Boston, all over; with a kind of messed-up identity."
"I was in Zimbabwe a few years ago, and I saw some really drunk people dancing,We were watching them, and they were always almost falling, and then they would catch themselves. Just like those people dancing, I also want to dance with that kind of freedom and balance."
"I'm a very simple guitar player...I would write my songs as lullabies. I would write little poems for myself to lift me up."
"It's a whole inner process of dealing with my issues, and I think the music is medicine and a cathartic process for me,So that's why I do it — for me most of all."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.