Ferial Haffajee Quotes

#1. I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Angelina Jolie

#2. That evil can never be great which is the last.

Cornelius Nepos

#3. Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.

Ferial Haffajee

#5. Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. He was enraged and bitter and hoped for a personal meeting with Sarkozy where he would recount to him France's colonial history in Africa and make him see reasons why her policy of assimilation was a voyage to the destruction of Africa, its people, land, culture and sense of belonging.

S.A. David

#7. All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

Susanna Clarke

#8. Take your racism and jump in the Tugela!

Ferial Haffajee

#9. There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

Erica Schroeder

#10. The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles.

Dave Barry

#11. The idea of black poverty is always presented as the outcome of white wealth, but what South Africa has is a poverty problem, not necessarily a black poverty problem because it is a largely black country.

Ferial Haffajee

#12. Even if there are no new Mighty Atom manga or films created, the Mighty Atom character has become a permanent fixture of both Japanese and global pop culture.

Frederik L. Schodt

#13. In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

Jay Griffiths

#14. You need to put yourself in their place in order to understand people

Sunday Adelaja

#15. ...I thought, God, I promise to stay a virgin, just please don't let anyone probe me.

Stephanie Tromly