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Oliver Tambo Quotes

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Oliver Tambo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: south african
Birth: October 27, 1917 - April 24, 1993

Topics

Power Black Discrimination Oppression

When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white classmates never failed to remind me that I was more fortunate than they were at this particular juncture in American literature.

Jenny Zhang

Me Writing American Literature White

Vegas is the city of temptation. I think, perhaps, it is an experiment by NASA. If we're going to send people to Mars, how will we create false economies and cultures to satisfy them? Vegas has the answer. People go there when they've nothing left to lose.

Robert Lepage

People City Think Vegas Lose Create

Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.

Jeff Goodell

Progress Risks World Understanding

Most voices get weaker and frailer. I seem to be getting better with age.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Age Better Getting Better Seem Get

Religion is such a path with people.

Travis Fimmel

Path Religion People

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

Michael O'Donoghue

You Strange Will Mysterious Never

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.

Michael Mann

Best Police Writing Story Television

I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class.

Mirai Nagasu

Trouble Class Always Getting

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

Jean Cocteau

Love Soul Wood To Love Who Souls

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler

Love Respect Self-Love More Hatred

Bookstores should be located not only on campuses or on main drags, but at the assembly plant's gates, also.

Joseph Brodsky

Plant Only Assembly Should Gates

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Joni Mitchell

Eye Individual Public Public Eye