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Steven Biko Quotes

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

Steven Biko

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: south african
Birth: December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977

Topics

Man Value Black Country Dignity Him

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

Maynard Webb

Work Great Time Management Better

My life is pretty ordinary in so many ways. I live in a town called Plainville. I have the life of an average dad. It feels like I have this secret identity as an author, and it's still very surreal to me.

Jeff Kinney

Life Live Identity Me My Life Still

Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Siri Hustvedt

Funny Business Honesty Think Facts

People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me.

Trombone Shorty

People Me Sound Seem Like Absorb

I've always built furniture and done farm work.

Travis Fimmel

Work Farm Furniture Done Always

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Good Rest Speak Think Better Hustle

You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

Robert Englund

Together Get Together You Surrender

I don't own Hollywood.

Louis Farrakhan

Hollywood Own

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or any of these places which other novelists are able to write about in relation to their childhoods.

Joseph O'Neill

Memories School Growing Up Growing

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Drake

Live Music Writing Thinking Lose

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

Chris Gabrieli

Work Challenge Day Every Day Go

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

Dreams Impossible Inevitable First