"I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power."

-- Ngugi wa Thiong'o

#Thinking Quotes #Language And Power Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.”
“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”
“I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.”
“The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.”
“Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. March 13, 2005.
“Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'”
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.”
“We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.”

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