"I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there."

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Source : "Neo-African Literature: A History of Black Writing". Book by Janheinz Jahn, 1968.

Wole Soyinka

#Skeletons Quotes #Forests Quotes #Doe Quotes

“We have to earn our Wings every day.”

Source : Frank Borman, Robert J. Serling (1988). “Countdown: an autobiography”, Silver Arrow
“What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.”
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.”
“When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.”
“Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.”

Source : "Meet The Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. November 2, 2003.
“I'm not sure when I first knew that I was gay.”

Source : Mary Cheney (2006). “Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life”, Pocket Books
“There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.”
“One moment cannot be the most important.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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