Taiye Selasi So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual. – Taiye Selasi African Quotes Conflated Quotes Import Quotes Individual Quotes Literature Quotes People Quotes Politics Quotes I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn’t that they are inaccurate, but that they’re incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn’t that it’s inaccurate, it’s that it’s incomplete.
Erno Rubik If you have many children, the first one is always different because you can only have one child who is the first. They have different natures and talents for you to love. – Erno Rubik
Pawel Pawlikowski I’m more interested in people the way they are than what they’ve done onscreen before. So I don’t worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, ‘Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?’ – Pawel Pawlikowski
James Daly Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year. James Daly
Aretha Franklin If a song’s about something I’ve experienced or that could’ve happened to me it’s good. But if it’s alien to me, I couldn’t lend anything to it. Because that’s what soul is all about. – Aretha Franklin
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