"Dealing with politically-engaged writers of color like Abdellatif LaÃ¢bi and Rashid Boudjedra - who ran away from school aged sixteen to fight against the French in the Algerian war - first requires convincing an editor to take a chance on them, which very few like to do these days."

-- Andre Naffis-Sahely

#War Quotes #School Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing poetry for a long time, since I was about eight, but I remember my first one that I put to chords. I was really trying to be like the psychedelic era Beatles, I was obsessed. All I could think about was Beatles and Hendrix. So I tried to write a psychedelic song, and it was the worst. I couldn't even... If I read it now - I still have the book somewhere - it makes me cringe out loud. It was just about psychedelic stuff.”
“Creeds are definitions of what it means to be a Christian. They are fences that, albeit imperfectly, seek to separate sheep from goats.”
“We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.”
“I don't believe in e-mail. I rarely use a cell phone and I don't have a fax.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.”
“In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models â€“ that is, they are responsible for learning.”

Source : "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.
“If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.”
“Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.”

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