Mazrui Ali Quotes

#1. You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept ... You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.

Ali Mazrui

#2. Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.

Vladimir Lenin

#3. But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

Jeff VanderMeer

#4. My dad was a Methodist minister.

George McGovern

#5. Back in the day when I played, a pitcher had 3 pitches: a fastball, a curveball, a slider, a changeup and a good sinker pitch.

Mike Shannon

#6. Hysteria derives from the Greek word for "uterus," and the extreme emotional state it denotes was once thought to be due to a wandering womb; men were by definition

Rebecca Solnit

#7. Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

Ali A. Mazrui

#8. I am tired of days that are all the same.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

Ali Mazrui

#10. Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Carrie Fisher

#11. Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel

Ali A. Mazrui

#12. A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.

Bill Bryson

#13. Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you are.
Eckhart Tolle -The Power of Now

Julie Kelly

#14. Let go with me. Let me comfort you with my body ... there's no shame in forgetting for a night even if you know you'll remember in the morning.

Tiffany Reisz

#15. A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.

Ali Mazrui