He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

Violence is man re-creating himself.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it then that bridge ought not to be built.

Each generation must discover its mission fulfill it or betray it in relative opacity.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour.

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

It's not my job to tell people what to think. If I can actually in some way help the readers' own creative thinking, then that's got to be to everybody's benefit.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

Dont criticize something you know nothing about. It only brings people down and makes everyone miserable.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

The smart ones ask when they don't know. And, sometimes, when they do.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Because my dad died when I was young, and I have a severely disabled sister, I couldn't really push the envelope at home.