Ngugi wa Thiong'o Quotes
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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I always believe that people can learn a broader skill set. You need good technology and solving a big problem. I always think that, at it's core, it's solving a problem; you're not building technology for the sake of technology.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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There is no truly global justice.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more!
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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
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As a kid, my dad would take me to see indie films when I would visit him in New York. Films that I just wouldn't see growing up in the Bay Area.
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I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
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I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.
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There is no way we can survive as a nation in the world without finding unity.
