#yea

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

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#court #i #plunged #popularity #publicity

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#crop #good #photographs #significant #twelve

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#going #i #i do #long #long run

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. ↗

— Henry Adams

#else #fit #however #man #priest

No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#directed #give #had #hand #held

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else. ↗

— Scott Adams

#different #during #early #else #had

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt. ↗

— Peter Agre

#following #group #high #high school #i

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#era #favorite #feel #filmmaking #great

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#being #cannes #festival #film #film festival