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Steven Biko Quotes

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Proud Care You Alive Dead Either

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

Church Seriously Hard Position Take

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

Queen People Think Feel Someone Ice

When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail room is downstairs,' to believe that racial perceptions don't still exist. But I figure there are always going to be knuckleheads no matter how many of their herd get stuck in the tar pits of progress.

Business Progress Believe Meetings

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Roberto Burle Marx

Gardening Color Plant Aesthetic

It is all down to 'The Two Ronnies.' Those years with Ronnie Barker were the spine of my career.

Career Down Two Years Spine Those

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Live Together World More Same Far

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.

Michelle Alexander

Police Silence Practice Reward Admit

Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'

Good Best Wrong Side Defense Who

I like to meditate. But I get rid of my stress at the gym.

Stress Gym Get Like Rid Meditate

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

Rich Poor Get Sing Like Again

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

Man Never Tell Involved Seen Been

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

Family Mother Because Loud Mostly

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