"The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa."

-- Paul Boateng

#Lying Quotes #Inspire Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
“...Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (2010). “Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder”, p.204, New World Library
“I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.”
“I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.”
“Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.”

Source : "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.
“War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.”
“For those of you who may be unaware, [Michael] Boskin is the economist/weasel/fraud who helped to officially distort the CPI, making it more or less worthless as a measure of inflation. The Boskin Commission... was an act of cowardice. Rather than man up and say fix this, its broken, we can't afford it.”
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

Source : Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.130, Hachette UK

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