Talajer Zi Quotes & Sayings

The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with an outsize intensity. These were the things that had been solidified in my mind by reiteration, that recurred in dreams and daily thoughts: certain faces, certain conversations, which, taken as a group, represented a secure version of the past that I had been constructing since 1992. But there was another, irruptive, sense of things past. The sudden reencounter in the present, of something or someone long forgotten, some part of myself I had relegated to childhood and to Africa. — Teju Cole

Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world — Bob Dylan

The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on my own, they think, I'm gonna get money from this guy. — Queen Latifah

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heartbreaks. — Lin Yutang

I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children. — Melinda Gates

The future never just happened. It was created. — Mae Jemison

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time. — Carolina Kostner

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. — Clara Zetkin

I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap. — Robert Glasper

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. — Max DePree

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know. — Alan Furst