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"Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety."
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"We were all created differently, each with his/her calling and purpose."
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"It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!"
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"Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don't get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!"
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"They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them."
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"Embrace your diverse, prismatic colors! They make you uniquely you!"
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"Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!"
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"Gay people were seen as magical, too. I mean, like in many cultures, men were viewed as warriors and women were viewed as caregivers. But gay people, being both male and female, were seen as both warriors and caregivers. Gay people could do anything. They were like Swiss Army knives!"
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"The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil."
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"Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity."
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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."
Society
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Answers
"I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening."
Government
"I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace."
Peace
"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."
People
"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
Science
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
Tolerance
"I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things."
Society
"I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning."
Being
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
Diversity
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