Nelson Mandela Quotes

The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

Nelson Mandela

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• I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Lost
  • Yourself
  • Golf

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Words
  • Same

• Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Internet
  • Television

• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Money
  • Support

• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Water
  • Film
  • Years

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Family
  • New
  • Broadway

• I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Working

• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Happened

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• Singing is a prayer to me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Prayer

• I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.

  

  Barry McGee
  • People
  • Art
  • Interesting

• Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of bridges across lines of moral justice.

  

  Hilary Beckles
  • People
  • Justice
  • Building

• 'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• I'm quite interested in doing a film about fashion. As someone with no fashion taste whatsoever, I think it would be good for me.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Good
  • Fashion

• If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

  

  William Friedkin
  • War
  • Today
  • Stars

• The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Future
  • Black