I HAVE NO TRIBE, I'M SUDANESE: denmark

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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Tribute to Natasja Saad

very very sad but kind-off old news:(
The half Danish/half Sudanese singer died in a car accident last June.

If only I understood Danish:)

Quotable Quotes

"The way to change other's minds is with affection, and not anger"
The Dalai Lama

"Suffering is everywhere.Dont ever think it isn't. So are Miracles. Dont ever think they aren't"
Harper Collins

"Age doesnt protect you from love, but love to some extent, protects you from age"
Anais Niin

"I with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my toughness or my courage, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman"
Anais Niin

"America is like my distant uncle who does not always remember my name but occasionally gives me pocket money " Chimaamanda Adichie

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu"

"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it".
George Kimble

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.”
Nelson Mandela

"The Pope has swept through Africa, where 5 million people are already infected with the AIDS virus, and which expects by the end of the century to have 10 million orphans whose parents have died of AIDS - and told them not to use condoms”'
Brenda Maddox

"The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa, the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York”
Frank Dane"

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anais Nin

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
Martin Luther King Jr."

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
Dom Helder Kamara

"Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.
"Rene Dubos