"Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand."

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Source : "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

Jihan El-Tahri

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“If you listen to your own voice, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
“Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.”
“No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.”

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“Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.”
“It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.”
“This time, we stay in our bodies and remember. An important part of the book [The Pleiadian Promise] is about forming new communities on this Earth plane within our human selves - and new communities within the universe.”
“My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.”
“I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.”

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