"Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me."

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Source : "Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon". Interview with Spike Lee, February 1994.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#Basketball Quotes #Home Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.”
“But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.”

Source : Ilya Kaminsky (2014). “Dancing in Odessa”, p.9, Arc Publications
“When God said "Let there be light" he surely must have meant perfectly coherent light.”
“When you grow up, your heart dies.”

Source : Jaime Clarke, Ally Sheedy (2007). “Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes”, Gallery
“I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.”
“Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfÃªted but life-enhancing thoughts.”
“The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is.”
“Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.”

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