"That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself."

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Kofi Siriboe

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“Now, the situation is much worse in Indonesia than 10 years ago. It is because then, there was still some hope. The progressive Muslim leader Abdurrahman Wahid, was alive and so was Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Mr Wahid, a former President of Indonesia, was a closet Socialist. He was deposed by a judicial coup constructed by the Indonesian elites and military, but many Indonesians still believed that he would manage to make a comeback.”
“If somebody told me, "Not a good idea," I would've said, "No, it's probably a good idea if you get drunk with me." I would've flipped it around on them. There was no way you could tell me anything. I wasn't listening to any type of reason.”
“If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.”

Source : Rudolf Flesch (1946). “The Art of Plain Talk”
“When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.”
“Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.”
“Regardless of our individual circumstances, we can all enjoy the full blessings of priesthood power through keeping the covenants we have made at baptism and in the temple.”
“There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com
“Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”

Source : Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.165, Random House

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