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“I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit.”
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“When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
Source : Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.178, Allison & Busby Ltd
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“Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.”
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“In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that issue. "You are trying to deviate us from our way of life, our traditions." And of course the argument they give is that these traditions date back to before our birth, and actually they accuse us of being funded by the outside world to subvert their way of life.”
Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
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“Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin”
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“This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she”
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“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
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“Back in the days when I was a teenager, Before I had status, and before I had a pager, You could find The Abstract, listening to hip-hop, My pops used to say it reminded him of be-bop. I said, 'Well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles. The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin' like Michael. It's all expected, things are for the lookin', If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin'.”
Source : "Excursions". Song by Kamaal Fareed (Q-Tip), September 24, 1991.
