“Being the best was as equal to being in the middle, which was equal to being the worst. All were merely a state of being. It was how a person felt in that state and why they were in that state that was the important thing.” PersonsImportantStatesFeltMiddleWorstEqualImportant ThingsBeing The Best Book:The Gift Source: The Gift
“Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWritingPersonsWantedBlackWhiteEqualRacismHundredWesternWoundsJournalismBlack PeopleWhite ManPeppers Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.” IfsWorldPersonsWholeDiesEffectsCreaturesEqualStrangerWhole WorldPassingPassingsPropositionsAcquaintanceSpectacularMetaphoricalDeferenceCarnageOne Friend Author:Louis de Bernieres