Beyers Naude Quotes
You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.

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I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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Fate is written in the face.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.
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Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.
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People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.
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I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.
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I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.
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Living wasn't easy for you, was it? You couldn't enter your own life, but you could be someone else. You weren't you then; you were safe.
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The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
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In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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A fixed mindset, creates a tendency to avoid challenges, to ignore useful negative feedback and leads such people to plateau early and not achieve their full potential.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.