Ahmed Sekou Toure Quotes
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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I just want to be rich and famous.
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
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I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
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If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.
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Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.
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Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
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An African statesman is not a naked boy begging from rich capitalists.
