Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

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'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

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Books Childhood Displayed Few

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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Eckhart Tolle

Being Body Deep Dependent

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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Uzodinma Iweala

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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Eckhart Tolle

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Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

Uzodinma Iweala

Anybody Book Good Liar

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I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Uzodinma Iweala

Affect Beasts Different Different Way

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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

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Afforded Aware Been Brings

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It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

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Advantage Everywhere Happens Nigeria

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America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

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America Is Decidedly Racial

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In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

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Barack Brings Difference Discomfort

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Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

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Address American Future Must

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I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

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Africa Been Broad Etc

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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Vanessa Hudgens

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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

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American Black Definition I Think

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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Vanessa Hudgens

Am Aware Better Better Person

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There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

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It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

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Beautiful Beautiful Thing Desire Fellow

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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

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Afraid Africa African China

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There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

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Ever Greatest Greatest Thing Happened

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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

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Ability Believe Church Define

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Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

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About Achieve Be Happy Earth

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Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti

Almost Anyway Bit Business

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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Ugo Betti

Family Go I Think Least

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There is no forgiveness in nature.

Ugo Betti

Forgiveness There Nature No

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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ugo Betti

Consistent Else General Idea

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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Ugo Betti

Always Being Certain Peace

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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ugo Betti

Describe Else Idea Mad

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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Ugo Betti

After Always First Friend

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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

Ugo Betti

Acid Distance Like Memories

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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Ugo Betti

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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

Uzo Aduba

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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Uzo Aduba

Family Full Good Means

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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

Uzo Aduba

Crazy Eyes Funny Funny Thing

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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Uzo Aduba

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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

Uzo Aduba

Able Blue Days Get

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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

Uzo Aduba

Cast Gotten I Love Love

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I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.

Uzo Aduba

Color Dream Energies Feel

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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Uzo Aduba

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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Uzo Aduba

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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

Uzo Aduba

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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Uta Hagen

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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Uta Hagen

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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Uta Hagen

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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.

Upton Sinclair

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

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Reading 'Search Sweet Country' is like reading a dream, and indeed, at times, it feels like the magical landscapes of writers like the Nigerian Ben Okri or the Mozambican Mia Couto.

Uzodinma Iweala

'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Uzodinma Iweala

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Eckhart Tolle

There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Uzodinma Iweala

What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

Eckhart Tolle

Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

Uzodinma Iweala

I think 'Beasts of No Nation' is a novel that hopefully will affect each person who reads it in a different way.

Uzodinma Iweala

My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Uzodinma Iweala

Uzodinma Iweala

America is decidedly not 'post-racial.'

Uzodinma Iweala

In general, Barack Hussein Obama brings us face to face with the discomfort our society feels with this idea of difference.

Uzodinma Iweala

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

Uzodinma Iweala

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

Uzodinma Iweala

In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.

Uzodinma Iweala

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Vanessa Hudgens

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

Uzodinma Iweala

I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Vanessa Hudgens

There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.

Uzodinma Iweala

It's a beautiful thing, the desire to help a fellow human who is maybe in a rough spot.

Uzodinma Iweala

I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Uzodinma Iweala

There are some people who will tell you oil is the greatest thing that ever happened to Nigeria. And there are other people who will tell you it's the worst thing that ever happened.

Uzodinma Iweala

We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Uzodinma Iweala

Everybody has an equal right to be on this earth and to be happy on this earth and to achieve on this earth. That's kind of the way that I would like to try and go about living.

Uzodinma Iweala

Sometimes you just wanna go out, see your action movie, be done with it, come home. You know, and, like, you see 'The Matrix' or whatever, you see whatever film it is, and you're like, 'Oh cool,' whatever.

Uzodinma Iweala

Ugo Betti

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

Ugo Betti

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Ugo Betti

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ugo Betti

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Ugo Betti

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ugo Betti

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

Ugo Betti

Ugo Betti

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Ugo Betti

When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

Uzo Aduba

My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Uzo Aduba

People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

Uzo Aduba

You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Uzo Aduba

On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

Uzo Aduba

I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

Uzo Aduba