A hungry man is not a free man.

Sometimes the proposals are good; but one must be cautious of tempting offers that may not derive from the best intentions.

If i lose hope during the protest, i will turn around and look there, to look if i am not alone". [Requesting public via broadcast]

Wabinureba
Mi wo ukigusa no
Ne wo taete
Sasou mizu araba
Inamu to zo omou

Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar - Middle Latika

Language also reveals its power through an insignificant slip of the pen, for no matter how one tries to subject it to control and reduce it to “pure” instrumentality, it always succeeds in giving an inkling of its irreducible governing status.

African countries, as colonies and even today as neo-colonies, came to be defined and to define themselves in terms of the languages of Europe: English-speaking, French-speaking or Portuguese-speaking African countries.

On their own, the politics of representation are not enough to build a world where Black & Brown communities can thrive. We also need to focus our attention on structural changes to library systems, the organization of knowledge, & information literacy.

In high school I was a loner. I was a reject, I was a poser.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

To a certain extent Saddam Hussein's departure was a positive thing. But it also provoked reactions, such as the mobilization in a number of countries, of men and women of Islam, which has made the world more dangerous.

...Timchenko's company "was a beneficiary of a large export quota under a scandal-tainted oil-for-food scheme set up by Mr. Putin when he worked as head of the city administration’s foreign economic relations committee in 1991 ..." Timchenko and his colleagues were never prosecuted, and indeed he went on to establish .

If you are always guided by passion and compassion, you will truly have a life of meaning.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.
I'm so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

a poem is a naked person . . . some people say that I am a poet