#truly

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually. ↗

— Boy George

#emotionally #feel #few #few people #people

My former wife is a truly wonderful person. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#person #truly #wife #wonderful

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#background #been #being #belongs #community

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#become #comfortable #creative #creative person #curious

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. ↗

— Harold Taylor

#any #arranged #cannot #educate #experiences

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#bright #brothers #cold #earth #eternal

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East. ↗

— David Mamet

#american #american football #ball #east #football

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#establish #freedom #help #important #individual

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. ↗

— Og Mandino

#back #cold #danger #doing #gusto