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Read quote“The future will depend on how we nurture our children. How we connect them to their history and sense of self.”
Read quote“El silencio es en la poesía, como en la naturaleza, un medio de expresión.”
Read quote“Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.”
Read quote“It was disgraceful. If that kind of thing is allowed to continue, it means that a player simply takes his life in his hands when he goes on the ice.”
Read quote“For a long time the streets remained strewn with corpses, as the walks of a garden with dead flowers and leaves.”
Read quote“I consider this mark of your esteem the highest and most enviable literary distinction which I could possibly attain.”
Read quote“BJJ is growing these days.”
Read quote“Honest to God touched a nerve.”
Read quote“You can only connect the dots looking backward, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
Read quote“One broad historical generalization stands out clearly and convincingly, of which all histories of world culture will do well to take note, viz. the central position of India in the Orient world.”
Read quote“It was really important for me to be my own person and to be unique to who I am.”
Read quote“As an African writer I did not have to sound like a carbon copy English boy if I wrote in English.”
Read quote“I'm happier than I have ever been. And it is largely based on the perception of myself that I can survive anything.”
Read quote“I don't think I have been this excited to perform in any city ever.”
Read quote“Live in your truth. Share your gifts.”
Read quote“In Dunedin they accept I am a painter and leave me to go about my work.”
Read quote“Acting is believing.”
Read quote“I have this terrible urge to get away from the hustle and bustle and be alone to do what I want to do.”
Read quote“Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities.”