Kwame Nkrumah Quotes

The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.

Kwame Nkrumah

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• I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Young

• My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Myself
  • Challenge
  • Working

• If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Evil
  • Doing

• There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Team
  • Know
  • Involved

• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Art
  • Glory
  • Bear

• When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Want
  • You
  • Win

• I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Done
  • Me
  • Never

• I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Good
  • Music
  • Passion

• If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Different
  • You
  • Someone

• I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no one was listening.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Night
  • Band
  • Listening

• For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Love
  • Truth
  • War

• I was a punk. I think that's why I'm such a good person now, because I was such a bad guy then.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Look
  • Looking

• You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• A lot of times, people find themselves in a meeting where the primary purpose is to receive information, and that's a poor use of people's time. Those meetings can be easily dispensed with and can be an email instead that people read in their own time.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Purpose

• Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Me
  • Rap

• I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Work
  • Women
  • Independent

• The motive power is the cause of all life.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life
  • Power

• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• People aren't necessarily as concerned with how you vote as long as they feel they have a voice. If you can cross that basic threshold - that is, when a voter knows you're willing to listen to them and that you care about their lives - then that's most of what you need to get their vote. It's not your voting record.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • People
  • Long

• My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I knew my role as a young lady and as someone with moral structures and principles. She taught me that if I was going to be involved with anything, whether it be spirituality, music, or some skill, that I have to practice.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Music
  • She
  • Mother

• The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa.

  

  Kwame Nkrumah