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I don’t always place too much emphasis on religion because there were religions before the white men came to Africa.

Africa White Religion Always
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Even though I play the role of a tout, nobody wants to become a tout.

Tout Become Play Role
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I want to be remembered for something positive. It keeps me awake, thinking at night and creating more content.

Positive Content Awake Night
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

People Light Dark Quickly
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Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom Wolves Meant Dealth
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Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Achievement Possible Good Look
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I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

Brave Innovative Thinking Out
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Lives Palestine Iran Interview
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.

Ecosystem Politicians Apathy Voting
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Become Photographer Working Better
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I'm actually on the Twitter like all those crazy young kids are, and if I'm going to do an in-store appearance or I post something on my website, I tweet these followers, a word I don't like so much, and over 50,000 people go, like, 'Okay, I got it.

Followers Word Okay Twitter
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Anything Punk Rock Qestioning
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Developing Nigerian Rather Somebody
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You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.

Psychos People Care Other
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Informed Well Nonetheless Try
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Truth Statement Itself Anti-war
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I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

Lied Face Camera Night
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Forgivable Easily Some Make
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.

Punk Never Know Reply
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The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Idea Type Joke Owed
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Passport Travel Americans Lot
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Censorship Amendment Interested First
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I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.

Interrupt Professional Wrestler Jump
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Love String Significance Miracle
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I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

Motorcycle Heard Life Helments
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A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.

Pick Around Come Age
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Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.

Teach Criticize Problem Have
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Around Inherent Cynicism Cry
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My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better.

Own Better Gender Definition
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
Head Felt First Feel
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

AppearaBeyond Good Judgement Lies
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Anger Angry Choose Either
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