"I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book."

-- Mohsin Hamid

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“You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”
“I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.”
“Words matter, words have import.”
“Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and Ânobody else.”

Source : "Helena Bonham Carter unworried by Oscars after Bafta success" by Dean Piper, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2011.
“Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.”

Source : Song: Walk Out Backwards, 1997
“Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'Ãªtre of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.”
“I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done”

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