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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.


Chinua Achebe


#bad #body #contact #european #five

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.


Sherman Alexie


#actually #american #american writers #areas #call

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.


Jose Maria Aznar


#agree #alliance #destruction #effective #international

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.


James Baker


#british #carbon #carbon dioxide #companies #dioxide

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.


David Antin


#autobiography #her #him #his #husband

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.


Benjamin Disraeli


#claims #coming #future #hour #indifferent

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.


Atom Egoyan


#dealing #deals #family #film #i

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.


Arthur Erickson


#celebrate #century #chance #committed #developer

You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.


Edgar Bronfman, Jr.


#accepted #apple #beautifully #billing #brand

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.


Renee Fleming


#arts #date #event #film #gained






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