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"The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture."
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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."
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"Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely."
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"Ram-fication of Ravan-ous thoughts is what Dussehra all about."
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"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."
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"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury."
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"The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."
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"We are nothing but bricks from our cultural molds."
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"To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way."
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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
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"Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all."
Freedom
"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
Freedom
"If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent."
Economics
"A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."
Leadership
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
Activism
"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
Attitude
"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."
Expression
"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
Perspective
"It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know."
Morality
"I love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work."
Family
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