Steven Biko (Bantu Stephen Biko) Quotes
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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One with the law is a majority.
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The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
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Children are all foreigners.
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The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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One on God's side is a majority.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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We definitely have a majority in the Senate for McCain-Feingold, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.
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I'm a handsome, caramel-colored Latino from the Bronx.
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I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
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When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.
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Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.
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Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
