"It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men."

-- Wangari Maathai

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I don't need easy, I just need possible.”
“I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.”
“My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.â€â€¢ General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa â€œAt the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
“Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.”

Source : Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.3, Applewood Books
“It was shocking to see a leg! You've never seen a leg in these stories. We made it a little saloon girl. We played up on many elements because everything is just very covered and the tights are very thick and heavy. And then to have it all fell apart, absolutely, we wanted to see the leg!”
“I never have been an anarchist, I've always had goals and always have acted out of love.”

Source : "Mexican Pop Diva Rebuilds Career" by Istra Pacheco, www.foxnews.com. December 22, 2006.
“So often, over the course of our day-to-days, we forget the details of what shapes us most in life. Sure, we'll pay through the nose to have our weddings videotaped, but can we say the same thing about the first time we discovered masturbation, or the moment we realized that the true nature of the opposite sex is to lie and humiliate (and I'm not just talking about women here)? Usually not.”
“War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.”

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