"I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent."

-- Jacqueline Novogratz

#Thought Provoking Quotes #World Quotes #Continents Quotes

“A considerable proportion of the developed world's prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries' primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries - it means keeping poor people poor. Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.”
“I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.”
“I was not born to get stuff done. I was born to dream it and then move towards it.”
“The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.”

Source : "1000 Chairs". Book by Carlotte & Peter Fiell (p. 66), 2005.
“But hard bitten cynicism leaves one feeling peevish, and too much of it can do lasting damage to your heart.”
“I've been listening to a lot of gospel. I think it's the most beautiful kind of music. Just thinking about a group of people on a Sunday morning - no drugs, no partying, just connecting with a higher power. Then there's usually a choir joining together on one or two mics, creating this soulful music. So the recording captures the spirit that comes through.”
“I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.”

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