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“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than to make men understand.
“If you're not careful, newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the oppressors.
“They use school to teach you what they want you to know.
“Man himself has become our greatest hazard. We are not only too many, but also too few.
“What we call peace is nothing but a temporary truce.
“I was determined that I would write about the people around me.
“The poor exist so that we may feel the guilt of our comfort.
“Democracy is not a destination. It is a way of walking.
“The right of nature is the liberty each man hath to use his own power for preservation.
“Racism is still with us. It is a very serious problem.
“Progress is not the same as justice.
“Poverty is a capitalist dream.
“I will not be the tributary of any foreign power.
“Injustice is ruinous to civilisation.
“Literature is a way of protesting against the world as it is.
“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war.
“Africa is a continent that consumes its children.
“Our power is in our collective, not in our individual.
“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint.
“Let the unworthy bark, the lion does not heed the noise of dogs.