BeBe Zahara Benet (Nea Marshall Kudi Ngwa) Quotes

I'm the only African here, but why does it look like you can sponsor Kennedy Davenport for 30 cents a day?

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• People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.

  

  Little Richard
  • People
  • Music
  • Kids

• The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Fate

• There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Anybody
  • Look Like
  • Like Me

• There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Help
  • Genuine
  • Superiority

• I was wondering why I was put in prison for working in an African language when I had not been put in prison for working in English. So really, in prison I started thinking more seriously about the relation between language and power.

  

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Power
  • Language
  • Prison

• Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me.

  

  Willie Garson
  • People
  • Feel
  • Effect

• The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

  

  Tony Snow
  • United States
  • Money
  • Nation

• It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.

  

  Claire Cook
  • Buy
  • Look Like
  • Groceries

• It will largely depend on how successful the African governments are in limiting the amounts of second-hand imports and how price-competitive new vehicles can be with their tariffs.

  

  Craig Parker
  • Governments
  • African
  • Imports

• They both looked at each other then, and in her eyes he saw a sudden, unexpected flash of what forever might look like.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Flash
  • Forever
  • Look Like

• Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Dragon
  • Look Like
  • Helmet

• I get, like, 50 emails a day from kids being like, 'I want to go on this trip around the world. How do I get a sponsor?'

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Kids
  • Trip
  • Emails

• Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I'm doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I'm doing, stores from all over started calling.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Interesting
  • Look Like
  • Vogue Magazine

• Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Fighting
  • President
  • Italian

• God brought African slaves to America so that their descendants would know freedom.

  

  Ezola B. Foster
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Slaves

• I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • President
  • Majors
  • African

• I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Parents
  • Moved
  • African

• Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Senior
  • Apple
  • Operations

• "God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them? I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Answer
  • Result
  • Atheism

• If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree.

  

  Margaret Cavendish
  • Small
  • Matter
  • Bee

• When you need to correct someone, be resolved not to do so in a blaming manner. Before criticizing, view the situation from the other person's point of view. Then be careful to speak calmly and tactfully. Carefully edit what you say before you say it.

  

  Zelig Pliskin

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Way

• I'm the only African here, but why does it look like you can sponsor Kennedy Davenport for 30 cents a day?

  

  BeBe Zahara Benet
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