"I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. It is the context of power which changes behavior and transmutes antipathy into sympathy."

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Source : Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Lewis Nkosi

#Country Quotes #White Quotes #Racism Quotes

“I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.”
“Basketball is a game. Baseball is a religion. Baseball is American.”
“I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.”
“I'm lucky. Lord, I'm lucky.”
“Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains”

Source : Dee Brown (2012). “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”, p.132, Open Road Media
“I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched into his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.”
“Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.”
“Gratitude is what we are without a story.”

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