"I think that I learned music. And also you learn recommendations that you can use in your life. When you travel, you all the time remember what your mother teach you. You know in the African family the mother has a big role to play because the father is outside in the fields or going to work."

-- Baaba Maal

#Mother Quotes #Father Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.”
“I learned, viscerally, something that I knew intellectually: that I cannot protect my daughter from the difficulties as she may encounter in her search for her own identity, and that she will be OK. She has a sisterhood to share the experience with, in addition to her family.”
“[L]et light Rise from the chambers of the east, and bring The honeyâ€™d dew that cometh on waking day. O radiant morning...”
“Life is simple, it's either cherry red or midnight blue.”

Source : Song: Midnight Blue, Album: Ready or Not
“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”
“I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.”
“What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.”

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