Abdullah Ibrahim quotes
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“When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.”
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“People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.”
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
“The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.”
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
“I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.”
-- Abdullah Ibrahim -
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“Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man”
-- Abdullah Ibrahim
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“I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.”
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“I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.”
Source : "Drop Dead Healthy" by A.J. Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 13, 2012.
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“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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“Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”
Source : Abraham Cowley, T. Sprat (1721). “Poems and other pieces published by the late Lord Bishop of Rochester; with some account of his life and writings”, p.719
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Source : "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.
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