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.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

It is brave to be involved
To be not fearful to be unresolved.

No, I didn't have time to take photos, I had young children, all that...

Well, [Lorca had] a gift for gab. For example, he makes striking metaphors, but I think he makes striking metaphors for him, because I think that his world was mostly verbal. I think that he was fond of playing words against each other, the contrast of words, but I wonder if he knew what he was doing.

[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]

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

Do not fear death.

The fate of the Jewish people is the fate of Macbeth who stepped out of nature itself, clung to alien beings, and so in their service had to trample and slay everything holy in human nature.

This time, any attempt to present Hinduism and Indian culture by creating sculptures in the name of the New Year's procession of fine arts will be discouraged.

In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and beast,
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more creased.
In Bangkok
At twelve'o'clock
They foam at the mouth and run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.

France is very concerned by the humanitarian tragedy taking place in Gaza. And it’s for this reason that France voted in favour of this resolution. And it’s for that reason that we plead for a new, immediate and lasting humanitarian truce that should lead to a sustainable ceasefire.

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

The rabble has been the same in all ages. Materialism has been, and will ever be blind to spiritual truths.

Each individual man and each individual country, according to the principles of natural reason, is free from bondage. Consequently, if there is some threat that might infringe upon a country’s freedom, then that country should not hesitate even to take up arms against all the countries of the world.

A Hindu marrying a Hindu may lose his caste, but not his Hindutva.