Chinweizu Ibekwe famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.
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The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.
-- Chinweizu Ibekwe
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
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I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
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What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
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Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?
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She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
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