“The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.” WantWaterGroupsMadFishesIslandsKenyaUgandaEthnic Groups Author:Yoweri Museveni
“The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.” YearsEndsArtistDifficultWaterExistenceFireGroupsTeamProduceProgramBoundsIncludingPainterMagazinesEncountersOur RelationshipVansConsultingMatchingObstinacy Author:Michel Seuphor
“Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.” TryingOrderBitsWaterRealizingPowerfulLeaderGroupsMovementPleaseMessagesBiggerConnectedMidstMotivatedTribesGreat Leader Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.” IfsWorldBookRealEndsStoriesRunningLawWaterRightsGroupsMadNuclearNosesGiantsMinoritiesReal WorldInterfereSageImperativesAestheticsDwarfsDolphinsDwarvesTerritorialSimpletonsOrangutansMad World Book:Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit Source: Fahrenheit 451: Curriculum Unit
“I ain't never been in no college with famous people. I was a drifter for a while. I just was desperate to fit in with a group. Really, I was swimming. I was lost, treading water, trying to find my way. I wanted to play football. It didn't work out. I didn't really know what I wanted until I found acting in a theater department, and then everything just fell into place, and I had a passion about something. Then, I started living my life.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingPlayWantedPassionFoundLostWaterActingGroupsFootballCollegeFitTheaterWork OutMy WayDesperateDepartmentSwimmingLiving My LifeTreadingDriftersTreading Water Author:John Goodman
“For two hundred years Haiti has been swimming upstream. We were the first country in which independence was won by a group of slaves - black slaves. Across the water, the country that had just achieved independence - the U.S. - still practiced slavery.” YearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoCountryBlackWaterGroupsHundredIndependenceSlaverySlaveSwimmingHaitiSwimming Upstream Author:Michele Montas