"The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side."

-- Emma Donoghue

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“The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.”

Source : Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.
“I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.”

Source : "Pauley Perrette: from NCIS to the Daily Planet". Interview with Robert Greenberger, www.comicmix.com. June 8, 2012.
“Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.”
“There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.”
“Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors.”
“We live in a society that likes to kick people when theyâ€™re down. Donâ€™t be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.”
“Indeed I cannot doubt that there has been really one grand empire, or one Universal, one PandÃ¦an, or one Catholic religion, with one language, which has extended over the whole of the world; uniting or governing at the same time...”

Source : Godfrey Higgins (2014). “Anacalypsis”, p.246, Jazzybee Verlag
“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”

Source : 1990 In The Independent, 24 Jan.

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