"The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa]."

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Source : "Africa Update: Oprah Winfrey's Work with Schoolgirls". "New & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. January 8, 2007".

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

#School Quotes #Independent Quotes #Years Quotes

“Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.”
“The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 19, 2012
“Ce que nous connaissons est peu de chose; ce que nous ignorons est immense. What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.”

Source : "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.
“Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden.”
“I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.”

Source : Source: www.complex.com
“Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”

Source : "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.
“The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.”
“You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.”

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