Quotes About Aminata Diallo

#1. We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

Shirin Ebadi

#2. There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.

Adam Derek Scott

#3. What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

Aminatta Forna

#4. She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

Lawrence Hill

#5. There was something wolfish about him. Not in the sexy Twilight New Moon way, but in the I'll-eat-your-grandmother way.

Victoria Kahler

#6. Folly and evil are disciples of doom;
wisdom and righteousness are servants of life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

Sharon Salzberg

#8. I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

Karin Slaughter