Mark Mathabane Quotes

#1. I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Mark Mathabane

#2. I have always felt a connection between daily life and art ... my reality has been my key.

Mirella Freni

#3. I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn't a great thing. I've found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I'm glad I've got makeup to celebrate that with.

Laura Mvula

#4. Education will open doors where none seem to exist.

Mark Mathabane

#5. It's not so much what you do, it's just how well you do it, and that you do, do it.

Layne Beachley

#6. Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

David McCord

#7. Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#8. Life is a journey; your body walks with your mind as a single entity towards a particular direction. Death is a journey; your body walks without your mind as thousands of pieces towards thousands of different directions!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.

Esther Dalseno

#10. Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.

Mark Mathabane

#11. Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. You know, it wouldn't kill you to be a little more polite." "Why take chances," I muttered,

Jim Butcher

#13. Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Mark Mathabane

#14. If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

August Bebel

#15. Literature is the best thing humanity has. Poetry is the heart of literature, the highest concentration of everything that is the best in the world and in man. It is the only true food for your soul

Lyudmila Ulitskaya