Chinua Achebe People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. – Chinua Achebe Create Quotes People Quotes Stories Quotes The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Marc Faber Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years. – Marc Faber
NatureVincent Van Gogh It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. – Vincent Van Gogh
David ViscottFaith The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. – David Viscott
Sally Field My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. – Sally Field
Peter Sotos In the past the publishers I’ve worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing. – Peter Sotos
Joe Wilson We have the new greatest generation. We don’t need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers. – Joe Wilson
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