"Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has."

-- Gilberto Gil

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“It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.”
“All will be lost apart from happiness.”
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“At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.....”
“He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.”

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