"I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me."

-- Kwame Nkrumah

“There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen â€” despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths...”
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

Source : Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and I'm on the verge of losing Gale as well. The glue of mutual needs that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.”
“You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.”
“From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
“You become more attractive when you love yourself. You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.”
“. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!”

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