T Quotes
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“The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.”
“The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.”
“The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.”
“The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.”
“The aforementioned writers, researchers, managers, and newsmakers do not live in a bubble, hermetically sealed away from that which they describe. They are as affected, influenced, pushed, and changed by unfolding global events as any of the rest of us. As such, analysis of the news is, substantially, analysis of the society that produces it. Analysis of news language and the frames of knowledge that accompany it is a critique of social values, an examination of political priorities, and an unveiling of the ideological predispositions embraced at the site of news media production.”
Source: Palestine-Israel in the Print News Media
“The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.”
“The African as immigrant was not an inevitable by-product of the traffic in human commodities but rather a creation of his or her own arduous making. It is this that distinguishes African displacement in the Atlantic slave trade from all other emigration. Slaves’ full personhood was the crux of the contest between Africans and those who commodified them. Traders and masters alike confronted the universal contradiction inherent in the idea of human beings as property; conceding that the slave had a will, in order to better devise means to control it, was not an acknowledgement of the slave’s personhood.
The African slave, a victim of forced migration, cannot, then, be taken for granted as immigrant subject. This displaced being had to restore through her unassisted agency the pulse of social integration that saltwater slavery threatened to extinguish. That the Africans enslaved in America were immigrants was thus not an axiomatic truth, but rather one Africans had to fight for. Those who lived to walk away from the slave ship had to address the problem of their unique displacement and alienation. They did so in three ways that gave distinctive shape to their effort to build meaningful life in a new world. First, they engaged with the cognitive problem of orientation: Where are we now that we have escaped the slave ship? Second, they created kinship and community out of the disaggregated units remaining after the market’s dispersal of its human wares. Third, they came to terms with the saltwater journey’s haunting imprint on their communities, regularly reinforced by the slave ships’ return to deposit still more saltwater slaves on these unfamiliar shores.”
Source: Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
“The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.”
“The African culture can’t be the same as the European, or the European to be similar to the American culture.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“The African culture is not centred around equalising the exposure of bare skin to sexual connotations, as it is the case in the West. Africans have always felt comfortable in having their skin being kissed by the Sun. Simply because the African skin, full of cocoa and butter, neither cracks nor dies under the warm kiss of the Sun.”
“The African culture is not centred around equalising the exposure of bare skin to sexual connotations, as it is the case in the West. Africans have always felt comfortable in their skin being kissed by the Sun due to the hot weather that the Africans enjoy. Moreover, the African skin, full of cocoa and butter, neither cracks nor dies under the warm kiss of the Sun.”
“The African "Devil" is the only non-, black-colored character born of a continent of black that still retains all the attributes of a traditional African.”
“The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.”
“The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.”
“The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.”
“the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.”
Source: Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
“The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
[Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones;
Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]”
“The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.”
“The African specialist Nahid Toubia puts it plain [when speaking of female genital mutilation]: In a man it would range from amoutation of most of the penis, to "removal of all the penis, its roots of soft tissue and part of the scrotal skin.”
Source: The Vagina Monologues
“The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.”
“The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.”
“The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.”
“The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.”
“The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.”
“The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.”
“The African-American is often used, and has conspired with the rest of America to be used, as a diversion from America's problems. I wish African-Americans would stop contributing to this sideshow. I also wish all African-Americans would cease to sing and dance just for a generation. I think we provide too much entertainment.”
“The Africans have suffered so much from the political oppression, economic exploitation and social degradation.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.”
“The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.”
“The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.”
“The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni! I am N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes!" I paused dramatically. The young man looked blank. "Nope never heard of you. Now if you'll just-”
“The Afro hair has been our natural crown since the beginning of time. But down the line we got manipulated into hating and removing it.”
“The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.”
“The Afro-American is not a bestial race.”
Source: On Lynchings
“The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.”
Source: Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.”
Source: Airing Dirty Laundry
“The after-death state is very much like a dream state, and its dreams are the children of the mentality of the dreamer”
Source: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
“The after-party is always at a restaurant, and for me, the fun starts when I get a cheese platter. That's as f-ed up as I get.”
“The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.”
Source: The Poems of Sir William Watson: 1878-1935
“The afterlife has no customer reviews”
“The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it.”
“The afterlife is mostly a dream state where you confront the good and evil within you. The text repeatedly explains that the images the deceased sees and the sounds one hears are hallucinations created by one's own thoughts.”
Source: Beginner's Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Buddhist View of the Afterlife
“The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.”
“The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe." "And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" i asked. Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.”
Source: The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series
“the afterlife mattered to me. Heaven and hell and reincarnation. As much as I wanted to know how Alaska had died, I wanted to know where she was now, if anywhere.”
Source: Looking for Alaska
“The afterlife? Why do you think that you deserve another life? Have you done a great job with this one?" - On the Afterlife”
Source: Aether
“The aftermath of bearing shackles is an exquisite devastation, fraught with the ravages of survival. Even though one is no longer held captive—be that from a person, a government, or one’s inner self—the scars are deeply engraved into one’s psyche, and there’s no remedy for the soul. Many have the misconception that freedom equals happiness forever and ever.
That’s a wicked delusion.”
Source: Burning Falls
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
“The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.”
“The aftermath of this extraordinary election [2016] could be just as surprising as the race itself.”