Prince Akeem Quotes & Sayings

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? — Randall Munroe

I think the best thing to try to do is allow your daughter or your son to know that they can come to you for anything. If you can break down that wall so they don't feel embarrassed by telling you things, that's half the battle. — Channing Tatum

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love. — Arthur Wing Pinero

Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy. — Dalai Lama

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way. — Jonathan Kellerman

Language has everything to do with oppression and liberation. When the word "victory" means conquer vs. harmony and the word "equality" means homogenization vs. unity in/through diversity, then the liberation of a people from a "minority" class to "communal stakeholders" becomes much more difficult. Oppression has deep linguistic roots. We see it in conversations which interchange the idea of struggle with suffering in order to normalize abuse. We are the creators of our language, and our definitions shape the perceptions we have of the world. The first step to ending oppression is finding a better method of communication which is not solely dependent on a language rooted in the ideology of oppressive structures. — Cristina Marrero

Well technologically and so forth, it's a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it's very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content. — Cornel West

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is. — Terence McKenna

again some day." She smiled at him, a warm — Anonymous

There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. — Miranda Lambert

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything. — Henry Miller

(12) TWELVTH SIGN: Another sign of the learned man of the next world is that he saves himself from innovations even though the people are unanimous on innovations and novelties. He is rather diligent in studying the conditions of the companions, their conduct and character and their deeds. They spent their lives in jihad, meditation, avoidance of major and minor sins, observation of their outer conduct and inner self. But the greater object of thought of the learned men of the present time is to teach, compose books, to make argumentation, to give Fatwa, to become mutawali of Waqf estates, enjoy the properties of orphans, frequent the rulers and enjoy their company. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence. — Pierre De Coubertin