Teju Cole Quotes
The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again one day to this earth with power and glory, and raise the dead from their graves. All shall come forth at His bidding. Those who would not move when they heard the church-going bell, shall obey the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career in show business.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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I'm a kid who grew up working hard.
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The social effects which are usually enumerated do not constitute a reconstruction of society on a Christian basis, but were mainly a suppression of some of the most glaring evils in the social system of the time.
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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work and responsibility are the answer.
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The mythology is that political change happens only in election years. The truth is you build from election to election.
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I choose to feel optimistic, because I don't think I could get out of bed if I didn't.
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Christians, Yezidis, and other religious minorities have every right to remain in their ancestral homelands.
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
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I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.
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As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.
