"I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century."

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Source : Edward Wilmot Blyden (1976). “Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden”

Edward Wilmot Blyden

#Race Quotes #Greek Quotes #Century Quotes

“Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.”
“With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.”

Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.16, Verso
“I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.”
“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
“In the work of Seurat, you can see the dots of neutral colors carrying the form and then the dots of more intense color that make the color texture. It is a totally different principle that than of the Impressionists who used broken color to imitate visual effect.”
“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.”
“At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.”
“The last time I seen Eazy-E, we were at a meeting at the House of Blues with me, Big Hutch and Jada Pinkett Smith talking about shooting the Kalifornia video. Eazy was coughing real bad at the table and had to be excused a couple of times. EAZY-E never did tell us he was sick bad, but we knew. 2 weeks later, our beloved brother passed. I guess that was Eric's Wright way of saying, don't feel sorry for me, everything will be alright.”

Source : "Eazy-E x Kokane: A Day In The Life (DubCNN Exclusive Interview)". Interview with West Haven Blast, www.dubcnn.com. February 20, 2017.

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