I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

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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.

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All my big heroes are literary, writers.

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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

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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.

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In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

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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.

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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.

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

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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

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

Buchi Emecheta

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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.

Henry Rollins

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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.

Buchi Emecheta

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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Henry Rollins

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If you donâ€™t understand, ask questions. If youâ€™re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.

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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.

Henry Rollins

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

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Become Show People Only

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I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Henry Rollins

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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.

Henry Rollins

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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

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I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Henry Rollins

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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

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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.

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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.

Henry Rollins

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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Henry Rollins

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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.

Henry Rollins

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I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Henry Rollins

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Culture does not make people. People make culture.

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Culture People Make Not

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The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didnâ€™t have the weight of gender expectations.

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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.

Henry Rollins

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Masculinity is a hard, small cage, and we put boys inside this cage.

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I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Henry Rollins

Dreams Place Still About

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First we need to calm down, breathe, and get over ourselves.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person.

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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.

Henry Rollins

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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.

Henry Rollins

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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

Henry Rollins

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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Henry Rollins

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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.

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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

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I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

Henry Rollins

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.

Buchi Emecheta

All my big heroes are literary, writers.

Henry Rollins

Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Buchi Emecheta

I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Henry Rollins

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Henry Rollins

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

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.

Henry Rollins

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Buchi Emecheta

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Henry Rollins

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.

Buchi Emecheta

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.

Henry Rollins

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

Buchi Emecheta

Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.

Henry Rollins

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Buchi Emecheta

Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.

Henry Rollins

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

Buchi Emecheta

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.

Henry Rollins

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.

Buchi Emecheta

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Henry Rollins

If you donâ€™t understand, ask questions. If youâ€™re uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Henry Rollins

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Henry Rollins

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.

Henry Rollins

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Henry Rollins

I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.

Henry Rollins

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Henry Rollins

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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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.

Henry Rollins

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.

Henry Rollins

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Henry Rollins

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Henry Rollins

The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didnâ€™t have the weight of gender expectations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Henry Rollins