"Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer.""

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Source : "Ato Essandoh, Bourne Again". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2016.

Ato Essandoh

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“I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.”
“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.”
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.”
“You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.”
“What is the average type of a counterfeit church? A hammock, attached on one side to the cross, and, on the other, held and swung to and fro by the forefinger of Mammon; its freight of nominal Christians elegantly moaning meanwhile over the evils of the times, and not at ease unless fanned by eloquence and music, and sprinkled by social adulations into perfumed, unheroic slumber.”

Source : Joseph Cook (1881). “Scepticism and Rationalism: Elective Affinities and Hereditary Descent”
“High level womanness occurs and is freed when the filters and the boundaries in your womanness are no longer of use to you. As a woman you then move as your own Being.”
“Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.”
“No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.”

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