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Ahmed Ben Bella

"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."

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"Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Creativity is a flower of love and a light that is eager to enlighten others."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Imagination is a pleasant phenomenon."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"With 'Carousel' I had an idea and it all came out quickly."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real."

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"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men."

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