"The settler makes history and is conscious of making it. And because he constantly refers to the history of his mother country, he clearly indicates that he himself is the extension of that mother country. Thus the history which he writes is not the history of the country which he plunders but the history of his own nation in regard to all that she skims off, all that she violates and starves."

-- Frantz Fanon

#Mother Quotes #Country Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their experience and history - a phenomenon derided by conservative white men as identity politics and multiculturalism in the arts.”
“I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.”

Source : Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.7, Knopf
“True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.”
“Are you up to the challenge? Are you going to be a reproduction or an original? Will you strive to be innovative or imitative? Are you ready to take your turn on the page, turn up the heat, turn it on?”
“I tried ***** once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale.”
“Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips, and the world in your heart.”
“You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.”
“The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you...”

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