"It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.”
“My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.”
“The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.”
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”

Source : Willie Morris (1970). “North toward home”, Yoknapatawpha Pr
“I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.”
“Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.”
“There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.”

Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.48
“I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.”

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