#elf

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#community #cooperation #cover #ethnic #ethnic groups

I have to prove myself five times over. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

#i #myself #over #prove #times

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#beard #being #clothes #danger #grow

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

#away #between #cover #form #having

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. ↗

— Malcolm X

#defense #even #i #intelligence #self

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. ↗

— Malcolm X

#controlled #god #government #itself #liberals

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#arm #cannot #change #effect #evil

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#find #immovable #log #power #rock

You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison. ↗

— Bronislaw Malinowski

#find #forge #life #may #monastery