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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.
The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.
The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.
There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.
But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.
I learned later, just as a footnote, that the World Assembly of Youth was a CIA front.
I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.
I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.
I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.
It is always the village women who drive these things.
Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic.
The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.
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Abbey Lincoln
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