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Efua Dorkenoo Quotes

There is no reason to continue to fail our girls.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: ghanaian
Birth: September 6, 1949 - October 18, 2014

Topics

Reason Fail Continue No Reason Our

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Man Measure Of A Man Measure Down Up

Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Art Move Attack Like Chinese

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Humility Humanity Without

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

Mother Woman Child Someone Everyone

Early on, I had five jobs in a row where I was either fired or canceled.

Early Fired Where Five Either Jobs

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

View You Wrong Economy Something

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is no doubt whatever in my mind which is the better.

Mind Better Doubt Segregation Open

The ego is not master in its own house.

Ego House Master Own

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

Work Love Time Bad Acting Coming

I've run 1,000 miles in Baja, and that's pretty much nonstop.

Run Miles Pretty Much Nonstop

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Words Language Skin Desire Against

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

Best Yourself You Artist Find Tend

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