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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
“We carry our ancestors within us, their voices in our blood.
“My tears are the Tigris and Euphrates, flowing for the lost beloved.
“The biggest weapon wielded and actually daily unleashed by imperialism is the cultural bomb.
“I am the river, and you are its shores.
“A poem breathes, a quiet force, transforming air into resonant presence, pure being.
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
“The void expands like a disease.
“Democracy is not a destination. It is a way of walking.
“Let the unworthy bark, the lion does not heed the noise of dogs.
“The road leads to the end of the world.
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
“Families are like little countries: they have their own language, their own culture.
“Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
“A book is a silent teacher, a loyal companion, a friend without flattery.
“The drop dies in the river of its fulfillment.
“A man without memory is like the wind — free but without direction.
“Africa is a continent that consumes its children.
“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint.
“My heart is the lamp, and your love is the oil that keeps it burning.