Kwame famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.
-- Kwame

#People #Giving #Behavior
Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead
-- Kwame

#Identity #Culture #Made
In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience.
-- Kwame

#Order #Opponents #Violence
I should have blown this mic like I said I might Got the force of 20 men like a Jedi Knight.
-- Kwame

#Men #Knights #Hip Hop
The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the imperial power had at least to explain and justify at home the actions it was taking abroad. In the colony those who served the ruling imperial power could at least look to its protection against any violent move by their opponents. With neocolonialism neither is the case.
-- Kwame

#Moving #Responsibility #Home

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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.
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.
I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

Kwame famous quotes

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