"Peppercorn is black and so is the beauty mark of the moon-faces -both rend the heart, yet between them lie enormous spaces"

“YOU'RE just humming with sexual energy! Is it the fabric? Is it wearing tights?”

“A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of positive accretions from oppressor and other cultures, they return to the upward paths of their own culture, which is nourished by the living reality of its environment, and which negates both harmful influences and any kind of subjection to foreign culture. Thus, it may be seen that if imperialist domination has the vital need to practice cultural oppression, national liberation is necessarily an act of culture”

“And I'm not sure why I'm infatuated with death, My imagination is surely an aggravation of threats... Maybe cause I'm a dreamer, and sleep is the cousin of death, Really stuck in the scheme of wondering when I'mma rest.”

“It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.”

Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.54, Cornell University Press

“As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.”

“As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.”

“Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.”

“It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit”