Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.
To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U. S. A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end. . . . I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
People can only be free if they are truly educated.
Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
I felt that I committed myself too much. I promised too much. But that way it's exciting.
I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps. ' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps. '
Bhutto represents everything the fundamentalists hate - a powerful, highly-educated woman operating in a man's world, seemingly unafraid to voice her independent views and, indeed, seemingly unafraid of anything, including the very real possibility that one day someone might succeed in killing her because of who she is.