This is Africa my friend, don't answer the question with a question!

There are three types of people in the world: nobody, somebody, and anybody.
Nobody wants to make a change, but somebody's gotta do it so they leave it to anybody. Then nobody does it.

Sometimes, I keep myself hard from painting my face to black.

With Man gone, will there be hope for Gorilla?

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With Gorilla gone, will there be hope for Man?

The world of the Takers is one vast prison...What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

The premise of the Taker story is the world belongs to man. The premise of the Leaver story is man belongs to the world.

The Leavers are not settling with discontent and rebellion, not incessantly wrangling over what should be allowed and what forbidden, not forever accusing each other of not living the right way, not living in terror of each other, not going crazy because their lives seem empty and pointless, not having to stupefy themselves with drugs to get through the days, not inventing a new religion every week to give them something to hold on to, not forever searching for something to do or something to believe in that will make their lives worth living.

Crime, mental illness, suicide, and drug addiction are features of an advanced culture. These things are the price of advancement.

The Takers are profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler's mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe.

Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

The price you have paid is not the price of becoming human. It is the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.

You are captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

Allahu Ekber, oglum why do you not want to clean it? 10 minutes, 10 minutes, then you leave! Mangu mangu, haydi haydi!

There is no rush in Africa. Everything happens in time!

I.D.M. = Internally Displaced Munus, from G-town

What are you leaving and what are you taking from there, Linda? Are you the Leaver or the Taker?

Oil might buy you allies but not loyalty; might bring you prosperity, but not stability.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe thinks his ministers are spreading HIV/AIDS: "Our men are not satisfied with one woman even if they know that they are HIV-positive."

You are heavy, fat and tall so I am overcharging you on my boda!

I spoke with the sun and the sky and they promised me they will smile with you today.

I am on a booze cruise and just tried gin for the first time. I just lost some of my half mortal powers.

Linda; if I was religious, I would pray to God for you!

Leenda, the comedian.