“ Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables. Tsitsi Dangarembga Author
“ It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end. Tsitsi Dangarembga Author
“ You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect. Tsitsi Dangarembga Author
“ Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance! George R. R. Martin Novelist
“ When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely. Viggo Mortensen Actor
“ Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human. Robert Burns Poet
“ Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks. Tamora Pierce Writer
“ In Afghanistan, you don't understand yourself solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself. Khaled Hosseini Novelist
“ The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother. Evan Esar American Humorist