"Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents."

-- Wangechi Mutu

#Country Quotes #Grandparent Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family I feel, so my empathy is strong for mankind in general.”
“I'm kicking new flava in ya ear!”

Source : Song: Flava In Ya Ear
“Judge for yourself who's still fighting for change and who got sick on power, because the person in the Miraflores has forgotten about the people of Venezuela.”
“Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.”

Source : Jack Layton (2011). “Speaking Out Louder: Ideas That Work for Canadians”, p.25, McClelland & Stewart
“Is there anyone to whom you entrust a greater number of serious matters than your wife? And is there anyone with whom you have fewer conversations?”
“Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.”
“The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.”

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