Decolonising Quotes & Sayings

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant. — Neville Cardus

A goal is important, but what you become to achieve that goal is much more important. — Debasish Mridha

It occurs to me that one day was never meant to hold so much. — Katie Cotugno

Self esteem,' said Levin, cut to the quick by his brother's words, 'is something I do not understand. If I had been told at the university that others understood integral calculus and I did not - there you have self esteem. But here one should first be convinced that one needs to have a certain ability in these matters and, chiefly, that they are all very important. — Leo Tolstoy

I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots.
There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed. — Toba Beta

I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that. — Tamsin Greig

We are taught to want a thing. We are taught that having that thing will make us happy. We are taught that having it immediately is the answer. We are taught a corrupted version of success. And love. — Daniel Gillies

I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire ... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road. — Vance Joy

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees. — Sue Townsend

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around. — Rumi

What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about. — Greg Rucka

The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them. — Chinweizu Ibekwe