"The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'"

-- George Ayittey

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“Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.”
“The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and not something that's just dismissed.”

Source : Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. January 23, 2013.
“I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.”
“The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us....we will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.”

Source : "Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions". MEMRI TV, May 2004.
“Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it; it's Pop Art time: "Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it's kind of like a clambake." I don't buy that.”
“Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?”
“Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.”

Source : "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 272), 2001.
“Realize that if you can instantly create a problem, you can just as quickly and easily create a solution.”

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