Petina Gappah On April 18, 1980, the last outpost of empire in Africa died. From Rhodesia’s ashes rose a country that would take its place among the free nations as Zimbabwe, the last among equals. And men and women leapt to embrace this dream called Zimbabwe. – Petina Gappah Africa Quotes April Quotes Ashes Quotes Called Quotes Country Quotes Died Quotes Dream Quotes Embrace Quotes Empire Quotes Equals Quotes Leapt Quotes Nations Quotes Outpost Quotes Rhodesias Quotes Rose Quotes Women Quotes Zimbabwe Quotes I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it’s true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves. The struggle for Zimbabwe lit up the imagination of people around the world. In London, New York, Accra and Lagos, bell-bottomed men and women with big hair and towering platform shoes sang the dream of Zimbabwe in the words of the eponymous song by Bob Marley: Every man has the right to decide his own destiny.
Jill Soloway Something I’ve really been wanting to do, ever since ‘Six Feet Under’ ended, was create my own version of this idealized writer’s room as well as the ideal family. – Jill Soloway
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
GoodGreatJane Austen My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. – Jane Austen
Colleen Ballinger I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman. – Colleen Ballinger
Dalton McGuinty It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier. – Dalton McGuinty
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