Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Decolonizing The Mind Quotes

#1. Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try.

Nicole Krauss

#2. Something terrible is happening to me, Mom," he said, his voice cracking. For the first time all morning, he felt close to tears. "Oh, baby," she said again. "Why couldn't you have gone somewhere else?" "Excuse me?" "I don't want to hear about any more of your problems.

Joe Hill

#3. Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Miguel Syjuco

#4. Death is a slave's freedom.

Nikki Giovanni

#5. I am thy father's spirit;
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night
And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,
Are burnt and purg'd away.

William Shakespeare

#6. To become proficient in any field you must practise. There is simply no achievement without practice and the more practice, provided it is done intelligently, the greater will the proficiency be and the sooner will it be attained.

Emmet Fox

#7. Conspicuous lesbians abounded - it's hard to miss teenage queers who have yet to figure out subtlety - and, though I can't deny that I like my girls a little rough, most leaned so heavily on the dyke archetype that they looked like a Timberland truck crashed into Lilith Fair.

Valentine Glass

#8. Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

#9. Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Ajahn Chah