"Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature."

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Femi Kuti

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face.”
“You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.”

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“A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.”
“Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.”
“I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.”
“According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.”
“When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.”
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”

Source : Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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