"I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology."

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Source : "Chris Hughes’s Act III — Jumo.com, A Social Platform For Global Volunteerism" by Jose Antonio Vargas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

Chris Hughes

#Technology Quotes #Development Quotes #Nexus Quotes

“I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American but that doesn't include the other half of me.”

Source : Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.
“I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.”
“Itâ€™s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.”
“The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.”

Source : Source: www.mantlethought.org
“It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.”
“Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.”
“How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours ...”
“It was an incredible effort by the Irish down in Tallahassee. Jameis Winston was too tough in the second half; congrats to the Seminoles.”

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