African Conscience Quotes & Sayings

The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist. — Salman Rushdie

The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting. — Jacques Roumain

You create a team by binding each to each, acting as glue, not as god. — Karen Lord

It all looks the same in the toilet the next morning... — J. Ryan Stradal

It doesn't matter who a man's father is. Your parents made a child, but it's up to you to make the man you'll be. — Robin Hobb

Last page of the book from Hell. Putting her hands on the small of her back, she stretched for the one hundredth time and looked over at — J.R. Ward

Have you ever loved something so much that you never had to even think about whether you did or not? That's how I love him. — R. YS Perez

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use. — Jerry Vlasak

There's no happy ending ... Nevertheless, we might well say that is exactly Harriet Beecher Stowe's point. In 1852 slavery had not been abolished. Slaves were still on the plantations and many of them were in the hands of people like Legree. Her book was written to shame the collective conscience of America into action against an atrocity which was still continuing. So a happy ending would have been, frankly, a lie and a betrayal. ...

Most of the charges are basically true. Stowe did stereotype. She did sentimentalize. She offered a role model which later offended African American pride. On the other hand, what she did worked. She wasn't trying to provide a role model for African Americans. She was trying to make white Americans ashamed of themselves. ...

Perhaps the short answer to her critics is to ask, "Do you want glory, approval, all those good things? Or do you want to achieve your goal? — Thomas A. Shippey

For the South African White minority, neo-liberalism is apartheid with a clean conscience, called Democracy. — Arundhati Roy

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films. — Neil Marshall

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges — Jane McGonigal

Because his art is such
a difficult one, the writer is not likely to advance in the world
as visibly as do his neighbors: while his best friends from high
school or college are becoming junior partners in prestigious
law firms, or opening their own mortuaries, the writer may be
still sweating out his first novel. — John Gardner

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me? — William Shakespeare

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic. — Charlton Heston

Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, nourished by Italian taxation, comprised a vast region in which nearly a quarter of a million Italian colonists toiled, and began to thrive, under the protection of more than four hundred thousand Italian and native troops. — Winston S. Churchill

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him ... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. — Joan Collins

It wasn't necessarily that I wasn't a fan of fairies. Really. It wasn't that. It was that I wasn't a fan of being taken hostage by a group of fairies. — C.M. Stunich