Mamphela Ramphele famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.
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The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.
-- Mamphela Ramphele
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If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently
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Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.
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The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
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The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
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I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Women, they are mysterious creatures!
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It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.
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