"The smell of coffee cooking was a reason for growing up, because children were never allowed to have it and nothing haunted the nostrils all the way out to the barn as did the aroma of boiling coffee."

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Source : Edna Lewis (2012). “The Taste of Country Cooking: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.24, Knopf

Edna Lewis

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“Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.”
“And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.”
“I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where itâ€™sâ€¦ thereâ€™s good sides and thereâ€™s bad sidesâ€¦IÂ wouldn'tÂ kind of turn the clock back and takeÂ another direction.”
“All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1985). “Triptych”, Penguin Classics
“Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.”
“For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.”
“Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?”
“And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.”

Source : "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

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