Nii Parkes quotes
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“An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.”
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“If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That's why I cry.”
-- Nii Parkes
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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.”
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Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
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“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”
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“I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.”
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Source : "Journal d'un poète"by Alfred de Vigny, (p. 32), 1949.
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