Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.

Uzodinma Iweala

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 5, 1982

Topics

TimePeopleHollywoodFantasyAfrica

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Jimmy Buffett

TechnologyAgeHateTelevisionCome

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

John Hawley

ConfidenceI AmYouWillKnowingUs

Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.

Andrew Rosenthal

ShouldAboutLeastCandidates

For instance, Clinton who was unquestionably the smartest of the bunch I talked to - both the ones who made it and didn't. He had a great interest in policy.

Robert Scheer

GreatPolicyInterestSmartestMade

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

Soleil Moon Frye

LoveHumanStudyingHuman Beings

I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Steve Southerland

LifeWinterSpringBelieveBetter

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.

Steven Pinker

BabyOrganizationThinkConnections

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.

Trent Reznor

LiveSpiritualKindInteraction

Life is just so painful and messy and hard and worth it and all that stuff.

Robert Downey, Jr.

LifeWorthMessyWorth ItHardJust

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

Robert Toombs

GovernmentEqualityFreePerfect

As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

Luis Gutierrez

FindImmigrantsTaxGoTaxesPay

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

Josh McDowell

LifePerspectivePeopleRealizeSeem

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