Edouard Glissant Quotes
To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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Oprah has definitely caught my eye. My mom and I used to watch her shows. We just love her.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
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Two lovers move in the crowd like a link of music,We press upon them, we hold them, and let them pass;A chord of music strikes us and straight we tremble;We tremble like wind-blown grass.
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Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.
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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
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My arm came back just as quickly as it went sore on me in 1915. I awoke one morning and learned I could throw without pain again.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
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I love visiting my friends because it makes me feel normal.
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For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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It's a relaxed intensity I've got to live my life in.
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I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor.
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One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.
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The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.
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To move from the oral to the written is to immobilise the body, to take control to possess it.
