Edward Wilmot Blyden quotes
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“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.”
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“I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.”
-- Edward Wilmot BlydenSource : Edward Wilmot Blyden (1976). “Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden”
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“Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.”
-- Edward Wilmot BlydenSource : "Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race".
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics
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Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
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Source : "Directing the Film". Book by Ed Sherman, 1976.
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“You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.”
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“A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.”
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