"There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came."

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Source : "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

George Ayittey

#Enterprise Quotes #Trade Quotes #Free Trade Quotes

“Some of the songs I've made, I'm really disappointed in how I mixed them.”
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.”
“I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.”
“God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.”
“After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.”
“I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"”
“I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.”
“Abstract art as it is conceived at present is a game bequeathed to painting and sculpture by art history. One who accepts its premises must consent to limit his imagination to a depressing casuistry regarding the formal requirements of modernism.”

Source : Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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