Acculturated African Quotes & Sayings

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.' — Yoko Ono

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. — Jeremy Bentham

MEETING THE EYE
You'll probably find
that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
than you look.
Observe that the easiest
method by far
is to look a bit stupider
than you are. — Piet Hein

Imagine the thrill of entering a world without shame. — Sarah Liss

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair. — Lois Greiman

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. — Oliver Stone

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me. — Gilbert Hernandez

We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last. — James Stephens

You are trapped in that bright moment where you learned your doom — Samuel R. Delany

We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union. — Paolo Gentiloni

Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant. — Patti Smith

The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements, vast concentrations of wealth and power, precarious systemic imbalances, ruthless exploitation, and command economies mismanaged by Central State/Bank policy and manipulation. — Charles Hugh Smith

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it. — Wendell Berry

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it. — Kelly Lynch