Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes

The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• I love owning my masters.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Masters
  • Owning

• I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • May
  • Want
  • Language

• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Mind
  • High

• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Time
  • Never
  • Direction

• Liberation is not deliverance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Freedom
  • Liberation

• Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Power
  • You
  • Underestimate

• No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women

• My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

  

  Elena Kagan

• Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Power
  • Hate

• I think everyone should go on my diet. It's called the Fuck It Diet. Basically what it is, is if I want to eat something but it has a lot of fat or carbs, I just take a moment, and I go within, and I say 'Fuck it' and I eat it. You have to do it 6 times a day. It works really well with the Fuck That Shit Exercise Program.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Exercise

• To those portions of the electorate fed up with politics as usual, Mr. Trump's willingness to say just about anything and to improvise as he goes seems more refreshing and trustworthy than disqualifying.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Up
  • Trump

• On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Men

• You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

  

  James Agee

• There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Important
  • Today

• I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Music
  • Rock

• I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Black

• Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Life
  • Faith

• To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

  

  Jeanne Moreau
  • Age

• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Reality
  • Like
  • Corner

• When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.

  

  Logan Lerman
  • Home
  • Reality

• The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Reality
  • Ocean
  • Rich