I was already singing by the time I was six years old. My neighbors would ask me to sing at festivities—marriages, baptisms, etc.—and they would give me presents. In 1973 [when I was 15], I went to the Institute for the Young Blind in Mali to learn Braille. When I was there I taught other people how to sing and dance.

For the past year, we have at least one suicide every day. After you open a casino, what will the suicide rate be? This is not a joke. It is a social problem. I am against opening the casino.", Goh Meng Seng, reported on 29 April 2006 [http://www.littlespeck.com/content/politics/CTrendsPolitics-060429.htm]

Interview with [https://web.archive.org/web/20100113132553/http://www.documen.tv/asset/Gabriel_Gracia_Marquez_Film.html Gabriel García Márquez] (1998)

[https://web.archive.org/web/20051124140305/http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog49/hsinhsinmingtranslations.htm Hsin Hsin Ming — side by side translations of Richard B. Clarke and D. T. Suzuki]

Who gave birth to Pakistan? Who broke our country into pieces in 1947? If Sardar Patel, instead of Nehru, was our PM then neither would we have have lost the war with China nor would have Pakistan taken half of Kashmir away nor would our brave soldiers have lost their lives because of terrorism.

[https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/1.4968119 Gideon Levy's articles at Haaretz].

The Year: 1980. The Scene: Outer Space. The Story: The Destruction of Earth!

[http://www.biography.com/search/article.jsp?aid=9421737&page=2&search= A&E life story of Neruda]

A war was on. ... On July 14 he was expelled from his home with the rest of his family. He never returned to the city he loved. He never forgot the scenes of in 1948, nor did he forget the idea of violent resistance. Can the Israeli reader understand how he felt?

[https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/university-of-southern-california/seminar-in-humanistic-inquiry/the-abandoned-baobab-book-notes/2209003 Studocu]

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.

Betty Friedan 1921-2006

No matter how hard things were, tomorrow’s fresh opportunity to make it better. So STOP saying, I wish! From the new year START saying, "I will"!!" in [https://www.facebook.com/1590787747814964/posts/3125665940993796/ official Facebook] (26 December 2020) Retrieved on 5 January 2021.

Well, when I began teaching at the University of Benin, I was only 24 years old and fresh from University of Ibadan graduate school. I was very hopeful and ready to make my own contribution to society. In 1991, teaching was certainly not an attractive profession for a young girl.

When I see how far we came from in 1984, when for the very first time, I competed in an event that was not allowed for women, which is the 400m hurdles, and all of a sudden now we see women running marathons like men, competing in boxing, in wrestling …we will witness a fantastic summer Olympic Games in Paris.

Be honest with your work, you’ll get everything you desire & success will loves you!!!" in [https://www.facebook.com/1590787747814964/posts/3127521617474895/ official Facebook] (28 December 2020) Retrieved on 5 January 2021.