"We are all Africans under the skin."

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Spencer Wells

“In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“What is not recorded is not remembered.”

Source : Benazir Bhutto (1988). “Daughter of the East”, Hamish Hamilton
“This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.”

Source : "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up (puckerup.com), Issue 1, p. 12, Winter 1995.
“There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.”
“It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.”
“What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.”
“Change your plate. Change your fate.”
“If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.”

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