Nelson Quotes - Page 5

• Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line.

  Van Jones

  Reality, People, Lines

  Source: pen.org

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• You don't have to write like David Foster Wallace or James Baldwin or Maggie Nelson - indeed, you shouldn't. Those writers are doing it better than you ever could.

  Melissa Febos

  Writing, Maggie, Better Than You

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every ten generations, every hundred generations. People who are miracle workers.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Leader, Miracle

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  Dan Rather

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Nelson Mandela is my hero outside of football. I was fortunate enough to meet him a couple of times. He was really clued up on his football and he knew me, so that was just unbelievable. It really stuck with me.

  Ryan Giggs

  Football, Couple, Hero

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• Somebody bought me a Snuggie as a joke gift. Haha, the joke's on you, I enjoy it. I toss and turn at night, finally a blanket that's like, 'I'm going to keep you warm.' It's like having a small child with polio keep you in a full nelson - the perfect pressure.

  Daniel Tosh

  Children, Night, Perfect

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• I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

  Dick Gephardt

  Years, Hatred, Honor

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

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• I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.

  Andre Nel

  Couple, Moments, Most Amazing

  Source: amy-cricket.blogspot.com

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• Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

  Peter Guber

  Moving, Heart, Successful

  "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.

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• Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."

  Trevor Noah

  Mean, Jail, Rocks

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Men, Thinking, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was doing the Black Issue in 2006 and then went to Africa for Uomo Vogue. I've worked with Gucci and Fendi, committed to create jobs. Fifty percent of those ads went to non-government organizations in Africa. [Nelson] Mandela was on the cover, it helped create attention.

  Franca Sozzani

  Jobs, Government, Organization

  Source: wwd.com

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• Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" - and this present President... It's a tragedy, you know, what's happened there post-Mandela, because he was an iconic figure.

  Bob Hawke

  Tragedy, President, Hopeless

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  B. B. King

  Song, Night, Always On My Mind

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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• One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and his ability to engage with ordinary people, equally comfortably.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Queens, Kings, Eye

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• Most people would say "Ah, Mahatma Gandhi, what a wonderful man, Mother Teresa, maybe Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama." And when you look at those people it's not the macho, aggressive, successful people, we may envy them, their bank balances and kind of thing, yes and for being successful. But we do not revere them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Kings, Successful

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.

  Toni Morrison

  Gun, World, Problem

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• Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is.

  Brad Paisley

  Years, Band

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm well aware that the Nelson Mandelas and the Winston Churchills of the world happened by accident. They usually come out of nowhere.

  Kinky Friedman

  World, Wells, Happened

  Source: www.axs.com

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• My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.

  Chris Tomlin

  Country, Dad, School

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• Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Father, Home, Black

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• Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Reading, Humble, Different

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave tips when dining out of town. Julie Nelson reminds us that most people aren't really like that. She helps point the way to a richer, more descriptive way of thinking about economic life.

  Robert H. Frank

  Thinking, People, Presidential

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• Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

  Mark Bernstein

  Reading, Writing, Links

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