"There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria."

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Binyavanga Wainaina

#Country Quotes #Pride Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.”

Source : Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.443, Baker Books
“Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.”
“Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.”
“I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.”
“They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed up any thing lascivious or impure; as also all secular actions; vain and therefore profane conversations, all walking about, noise, and clamour, that so the house of God may be seen to be, and may be called, truly a house of prayer.”
“Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.”
“I always thought that television was the way to go in my goal to invade pop culture because it got to towns in which there were no bookstores. That's how I used to think of it: How do I reach kids who not only don't read but probably have no access to much in the way of books?”
“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.”

Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau

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