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“Mastery of language affords remarkable power.”
― Frantz Fanon

“The phrase learn how to walk on bound feet was what struck me the hardest. I suddenly realized that I would never walk naturally again.”
― Lensey Namioka, Ties That Bind, Ties That Break

“doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted.”
― Bram Stoker

“To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“success isn't supposed to feel comfortable”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.”
― Hồ Chí Minh

“It is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most exploited of the human family. It is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the New World had as an immediate result the rebirth of slavery which was, for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind. What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emancipation, American Negroes still endure atrocious moral and material sufferings, of which the most cruel and horrible is the custom of lynching.”
― Hồ Chí Minh

“After the rain, good weather.
In the wink of an eye,
the universe throws off its muddy clothes.”
― Ho Chi Minh

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

“Then I carefully dipped my brush and wrote the characters for family, country, and book. When the examiner smiled, I knew he liked my work, so I decided to write the hardest character I knew, which was the one for virtue. It took fifteen strokes.”
― Lensey Namioka, Ties That Bind, Ties That Break

“Clinics and Hospitals are courts where you get accused of allowing foreign nutrients to invade your immune system. You plead guilty of the xenophobic attacks and then get sentenced to medication for your life, not knowing that healer is the ground you stand on, grounds that breeds life.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“We may start a journey with no batons to carry or pass, but we create them with the strength of our bones. Once they are ready to be birthed, we create our own batons, not only to pass but to first honour and nurture the marrow for it not to be easily broken. Not that it cannot be broken but to instill it with the spirit of sunrise for every sunset. Then we can pass the baton.”
― Goitsemang Mvula