"I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground."

-- Alex Haley

#Library Quotes #Today Quotes #Debt Quotes

“Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs”
“When we allow ourselves to feel what we are feeling-without trying to understand it, explain it, or judge it-we reach a point where the true wisdom reveals itself.”
“I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual Ã©lite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“In the simplest formulation, when we use a metaphor we have two thoughts of different things active together and supported by a single word, or phrase, whose meaning is a resultant of their interaction.”
“Weâ€™re never gonna understand women. Theyâ€™re way too complex. Youâ€™ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . thereâ€™s no way to tell whatâ€™s causing their attitude. - Mike”
“Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.”
“Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!”

Source : Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”
“It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.”

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