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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. – Ben Okri

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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, its about us, its about the reader. – Ben Okri

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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. – Ben Okri

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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri

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The single most important thing in a childs performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing. – Michael Gove

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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time – Leonard Bernstein

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Believe you can and youre halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Give light and people will find the way. – Ella Baker

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The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived. – Ken Lucas

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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song. – Phil Ochs

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