"The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery."

-- Chinua Achebe

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“On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human existence. It came into the world when humans did. It's what makes human beings human.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”
“Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.”
“The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.”
“Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.”
“My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can't hide the marks It's not a negative thing.”

Source : FaceBook post by Natasha Bedingfield from Jun 30, 2012
“Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.”
“Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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