South Quotes - Page 25

• Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance. Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Men, Thinking, Korea

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Real, Voice, Might

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Country, Sex, Opportunity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.

  Drake

  Memories, Want, Kind

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.

  Drake

  Uncles, People, Green

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

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• There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Built, South Africa

  "Top Gear", Episode #4.6. Comedy, Talk-Show, June 13, 2004.

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• North Korea threatened to launch a missile at South Korea. North Korea backed down after South Korea threatened to launch a sequel to 'Gangnam Style.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Korea, Style, Missiles

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• Japan and South Korea are on high alert after North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket. Both countries are surprised by North Korea's successful launch, but definitely not as surprised as North Korea.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Successful, Japan

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• The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future.

  Helen Keller

  Lynching, White, America

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.96, American Foundation for the Blind

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• For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Believe, White, People

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• Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.

  Gaines Adams

  Running, Home, Soul

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• I'm from South Jersey: The idea of eating a roll with olive oil and anchovies or some kind of sardine and drinking mint tea definitely comes from reading Paul Bowles.

  Patti Smith

  Drinking, Reading, Ideas

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

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• There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.

  Benjamin Creme

  America, People, Dying

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who'll play a central role at the worldcup.

  Thomas Muller

  Team, Play, Argentina

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• For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.

  Ishmael Reed

  Cousin, Grandpa, Comedian

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

  Matana Roberts

  Beautiful, New York, Looks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is "South Park" - the hugely popular American cartoon show - and the things that the "South Park" creators have created, like "The Book Of Mormon," the Broadway musical. If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in "The Book Of Mormon," right? It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.

  Adam Gopnik

  Book, Charlie Hebdo, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I just wanted to sing, and I didn't want my music to be unique to the US. I wanted Africans to hear it and know that South African music was still alive.

  Letta Mbulu

  Unique, African Music, Alive

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

  Letta Mbulu

  People, Forever, Cracks

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It was very interesting growing up in South Africa then. It was extraordinary. It was multiculturalism before it became an issue.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Growing Up, Issues, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I met some people who help in an archeological project in the South Pacific, between sailing to the Marquesas, which is an island group not too far from Tahiti, and I think, Wouldn't that be great? I have such a fascination with history and especially history in my own country.

  Robert Plant

  Country, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and actually dangerous. And the narrative that emerges when you spend time in the South - places likes Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana - is that we have always been a noble, wonderful, glorious region of the country, with wonderful, noble, glorious people doing wonderful, noble, glorious things. And there's great pride in the Alabamians of the nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Believe, Pride

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Office, Balls

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Unique, Community, Roles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

  Bryan Stevenson

  School, Names, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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