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“All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.”

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Keorapetse Kgositsile

Keorapetse Kgositsile is a renowned poet, born in September 1938. His poetry holds a significant place in African literature, known for its profound social criticism and exploration of human experience. more

“Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.”

Men Believe Two Ideas Use Faces White Answers Generations Emotional Fit Threat Categories Radiation Continents White Man Remarks Complication

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.”

Thinking Change Support Generations Response Adequate Swept Away

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.”

World Joy Fear Swim Worldly

Book:The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher

Source: The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher

“It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.”

Love Religion Ability Existence Christianity Duty Excellence Valuable Tolerable Bonds Of Love Duty To God Great Bond

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.”

Men World Done Earth Power Sea Wind Seasons Storm Endless Over It Dominion Earthquakes Endless Life

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.”

Order Fun Okay Pecking Order

Author:Michael Douglas

“As soon as you externalize an idea you see facets of it that weren't clear when it was just floating around in your head.”

Ideas Clear Floating Facets

Author:Brian Eno

“Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.”

Models Errors Compounds

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.”

Whole Jobs Lines Space Identity Calling Empty Bottom Blank Filling Bottom Line Humbling Empty Space Professional Life Blank Space

Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

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