"Because I am an African I reserve the right to say that Africa does not exist simply to make people in this country the UK, or anywhere else in the developed world, feel good about themselves."

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Source : "I am an African". Interview with Terry Macalister, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2005.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Feel Good Quotes

“Army life don't agree with me.”
“Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.”
“Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.”

Source : Song: Let's Get Lost, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004
“I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.”
“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”
“I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.”

Source : Alexandra Bracken (2016). “Never Fade”, p.6, Hachette UK
“Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.”
“Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.”

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