Quotes
Authors
Ngugi wa Thiong'o

"Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?"

-- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

#Letting Go Quotes #Wind Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Hang out with those who have a common FUTURE with you; not a common past.”
“I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life!”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.”
“The only thing I can say that is not bullshit is that you do have to learn to write in a way that you would learn to play the violin. Everybody seems to think that you should be able to turn on the faucet one day and out will come the novel. I think for most people it's just practice, practice, practice, that sense of just learning your instrument until - when you have an idea on the violin, you don't have to translate it into violin-speak anymore - the language is your own. It's not something you can think your way into, or outsmart. you've just got to do it.”
“I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.”
“These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
“If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.”
“Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.”

Source : John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.182, Macmillan

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