"Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating."

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Source : "Expert: Africa Needs More than Foreign Aid". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 6, 2005.

George Ayittey

#Lying Quotes #Aids Quotes #Salvation Quotes

“I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.”
“How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.”

Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new”
“Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions”
“its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.”
“Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.”

Source : Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster
“Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170

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