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I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA![]()
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your pa...
NELSON MANDELA![]()
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel...
STEPHEN HAWKING If there were a Nobel Prize in psychology, he would have won it. Every student of social psychology ...
FRANK BARRETT![]()
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me persona...
WOLE SOYINKA I still have that book. It is called Merrill Science and has a red cover with a picture of a robot.
MANOJ GAUTAM![]()
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the Africa...
MELES ZENAWI He spent his most productive years in Cuba. It was here that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and t...
GLADYS RODRIGUEZ![]()
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK![]()
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop...
NELSON MANDELA![]()
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON![]()
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY![]()
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY A lot of kids don't realize he was a minister, that he had a number of college degrees, that he won ...
ZOE SEYMOUR A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turk...
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI We knew that more research had to be done -- that a more complete picture had to be painted on the r...
JANE FORBES CLARK book will become a bestseller, and I'm sure even be proposed for the Nobel prize.
RADOVAN KARADZIC As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of Wes...
ABDOULAYE WADE![]()
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentiona...
MARCIA FUDGE Anything that happens in Chad or affects it has repercussions for Central African Republic.
FRANCOIS BOZIZE I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
DAVID EDDINGS That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would...
DEBRA NESS![]()
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because Presi...
CARL FORTI If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously inv...
P. J. O'ROURKE![]()
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,...
NELSON MANDELA My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my col...
MYRON SCHOLES The African-American community has a grave interest in the outcome of this case.
GREG JOHNSON NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond...
JAMES APPATHURAI NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond...
JAMES APPATHURAI![]()
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certa...
LEILA ZERROUGUI As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON I think that it speaks to the success of the event when you have to move to a new location to meet t...
GRETCHEN WOODS The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT![]()
the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH![]()
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW![]()
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. We must invest in building world class infrastructure, the skills of those who administer the game o...
DANNY JORDAAN![]()
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have i...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW [I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calli...
JOHN MCWHORTER Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD![]()
Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
CECELIA AHERN![]()
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the...
FERNANDO PESSOA![]()
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran...
WILBUR SMITH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.![]()
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobe...
GUGLIELMO MARCONI When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the d...
YAYA TOURE![]()
I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
The only perspective is to really be there.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK![]()
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community....
MATT KEMP![]()
Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
ROBERT HALL![]()
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate in...
OLIVER TAMBO It's sad that on the eve of the selection of the first African American presiding officer, that this...
FRED BREWINGTON I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don't know why he didn't. He was sort of a shy person ...
DAVID PATTERSON![]()
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL![]()
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South A...
MALCOLM X The jury selection system in this District has a history of substantially under-representing African...
ART LEACH In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
OMAR BONGO![]()
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.
SHIA LABEOUF In English we were reading the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the people of African-American desc...
TODD DAVIS NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond...
JAMES APPATHURAI If Sudan takes the AU leadership, it wins credibility, but to the detriment of the African Union. Th...
DAVID MOZERSKY The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
LUIS FEDERICO LELOIR The staff and one of our PTO subcommittees have worked very hard to develop a calendar of activities...
HARLEY WILLIAMS![]()
Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for...
DOUG YOUNG![]()
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER![]()
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS![]()
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show ...
EUZHAN PALCY![]()
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
BARRY MARSHALL One of the themes throughout African-American history, going back to before the Civil War, is many A...
MICHAEL DAWSON![]()
He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to Sout...
NADINE GORDIMER The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, ...
GUY BURGESS![]()
Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to...
AUGUST WILSON The first thing one has to appreciate is the context in which these men occurred. One, there was a p...
ALVIN THORNTON If the African Union is to have a strong voice it has to foster constructive criticism, not bury it.
REED BRODY Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...
DICK GREGORY
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your pa... NELSON MANDELA
It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel... STEPHEN HAWKING If there were a Nobel Prize in psychology, he would have won it. Every student of social psychology ...
FRANK BARRETT
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me persona... WOLE SOYINKA I still have that book. It is called Merrill Science and has a red cover with a picture of a robot.
MANOJ GAUTAM
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES After Nigeria, we are the second biggest black African nation. We are the headquarters of the Africa...
MELES ZENAWI He spent his most productive years in Cuba. It was here that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and t...
GLADYS RODRIGUEZ
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK
I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A man does not become a freedom fighter in the hop... NELSON MANDELA
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY A lot of kids don't realize he was a minister, that he had a number of college degrees, that he won ...
ZOE SEYMOUR A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turk...
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI We knew that more research had to be done -- that a more complete picture had to be painted on the r...
JANE FORBES CLARK book will become a bestseller, and I'm sure even be proposed for the Nobel prize.
RADOVAN KARADZIC As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of Wes...
ABDOULAYE WADE
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentiona... MARCIA FUDGE Anything that happens in Chad or affects it has repercussions for Central African Republic.
FRANCOIS BOZIZE I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
DAVID EDDINGS That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would...
DEBRA NESS
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because Presi...
CARL FORTI If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously inv...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor,... NELSON MANDELA My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my col...
MYRON SCHOLES The African-American community has a grave interest in the outcome of this case.
GREG JOHNSON NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond...
JAMES APPATHURAI NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond...
JAMES APPATHURAI
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certa...
LEILA ZERROUGUI As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON I think that it speaks to the success of the event when you have to move to a new location to meet t...
GRETCHEN WOODS The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT
the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. We must invest in building world class infrastructure, the skills of those who administer the game o...
DANNY JORDAAN
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have i... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW [I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calli...
JOHN MCWHORTER Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
Nothing is never nothing. It's always something. CECELIA AHERN
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the... FERNANDO PESSOA
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran... WILBUR SMITH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.
Thanks to the high standing which science has for so long attain and to the impartiality of the Nobe... GUGLIELMO MARCONI When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the d...
YAYA TOURE
I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community.... MATT KEMP
Nobel prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety GEORGE BERNARD SHAW African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
ROBERT HALL
I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate in... OLIVER TAMBO It's sad that on the eve of the selection of the first African American presiding officer, that this...
FRED BREWINGTON I think he should have won the Nobel Prize. I don't know why he didn't. He was sort of a shy person ...
DAVID PATTERSON
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South A... MALCOLM X The jury selection system in this District has a history of substantially under-representing African...
ART LEACH In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
OMAR BONGO
I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity. SHIA LABEOUF In English we were reading the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' and the people of African-American desc...
TODD DAVIS NATO has not received any formal request from the U.N. or from the African Union for anything beyond...
JAMES APPATHURAI If Sudan takes the AU leadership, it wins credibility, but to the detriment of the African Union. Th...
DAVID MOZERSKY The prestige of the Nobel Prize is such that one is suddenly promoted to a new status.
LUIS FEDERICO LELOIR The staff and one of our PTO subcommittees have worked very hard to develop a calendar of activities...
HARLEY WILLIAMS
Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody. STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for...
DOUG YOUNG
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be... NAGUIB MAHFOUZ When African-Americans come to France, the French show them more consideration than they would show ...
EUZHAN PALCY
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. BARRY MARSHALL One of the themes throughout African-American history, going back to before the Civil War, is many A...
MICHAEL DAWSON
He's a colleague and a friend, and it's also a wonderful thing that the Nobel Prize has come to Sout... NADINE GORDIMER The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, ...
GUY BURGESS
Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to... AUGUST WILSON The first thing one has to appreciate is the context in which these men occurred. One, there was a p...
ALVIN THORNTON If the African Union is to have a strong voice it has to foster constructive criticism, not bury it.
REED BRODY Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...
DICK GREGORY
