Mongane Wally Serote Quotes

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Comedian | May 8, 1944
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I'm out here a thousand miles from my home
Walkin' a road other men have gone down
I'm seein' your world of people and things
Your paupers and peasants and princes and kings
Bob Dylan
I think we need some new Christmas carols with a more modern approach. Of course, I wouldn't abandon the religious theme completely. How about "Holy Christ, the Christmas Tree's on Fire"? Or "Jesus, Can You Believe It's Christmas Again?" This ought to get the ball rolling; I'm hoping you people will take it from here.
George Carlin
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Her voice makes you stop the car and peer skywards in wonder.
Oumou Sangaré
Her voice and her battles influenced the process of liberation and democratic rebirth in South Africa.
Miriam Makeba
The Third World deserves freedom of speech just like everyone else. We want to fight the battle to say what we want, whether to be serious or just make fun of ourselves. That's what "Worldtown" is about, that's what "Paper Planes" is about. It's what people in the third world live through.
M.I.A.
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In "Mystery Train" (1955), he rocks out with an astounding depth, Elvis' voice never sounding so rich, nor so pleading; best of all is his final spontaneous laugh & whoop of excitement, worth its weight in gold.
Rachid Taha
Sarojini Naidu writes instant poetry where images and metaphors come rolling ready on the hot plates of imagination. Her poetry is intensely emotionally, at times passionate to the point of eroticism and always has a spring.
Sarojini Naidu
The first night, a rock, big as two fists.
The second, a rock big as three.
But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed.
(Though oaken as man could be.)
The third night, a silvery ring of glass.
Patience arched to endure,
But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood
Was staining her gaze so pure.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Is not just a faded echo of the feeble voice of decadent romanticism but an authentic Indian English utterance exquisitely tuned to the composite to Indian ethos, bringing home to the unbiased reader all the opulence, pageantry and charm of Indian life, and the spenders of Indian scene.
Sarojini Naidu
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One should write not unskilfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when pressed upon him.
Yoshida Kenkō
If he says that I am the voice of the century, then I would say that he is the writer of the century.
Lata Mangeshkar
The distance in form, intention, mood and expression between Schubert's songs for voice and piano and those of, say, Adele, is remarkably small.
Adele
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If he says that I am the voice of the century, then I would say that he is the writer of the century.
Gulzar
Tom Kenny — The Penguin, League of Assassins Ninja
Kenny Everett
Kaito Ishikawa (Anime)
Kenji "Yellow" Ito
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou