PLO Lumumba quotes

“The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.”
-- PLO Lumumba

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“Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time.”
-- PLO Lumumba

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“Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.”
-- PLO Lumumba

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“The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.”

“Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.”

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“Magic likes a good tragedy, too.”

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.”

“That is why most great love stories are tragedies.”

“Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.”

“Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.164

“Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.”

“We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.”

“No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.”