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Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#cameroon #care #countries #donor #female

The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it to involve American man. It is our job to interest him in his community and to give his ideas the excitement they should have. ↗

— John Hay Whitney

#community #day #every #every day #excitement

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#active #artist #i #politically #say

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#essays #fritter #his #should #someone

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#brad #brad pitt #engaging #film #film industry

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be. ↗

— George Weah

#believe #come #control #country #democracy

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#i #i do #political #tracts #want

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics. ↗

— Olga Korbut

#gymnastics #i #live #without

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#i #i do #moral #non-violence #political

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #deal #deliver #done #everything