All Quotes

"We are attached to the culture of where we grew up and for me is the umuntu culture,the human being part of that culture"

"I have met people from my culture who are probably too shy to say they are Zimbabweans,or embrace and be proud of this vibrant culture.I am unashamedly proud of it"

"It is my role to tell stories,I am not an actress,and that will be a nice challenge very exciting"

"There is something incredibly powerful about the soil of Africa and for me it is to inspire a child to see a different Africa and also take them on a journey.The music at the end is a little bonus,but the biggest part of me is describing Africa and also the questions"

"The best kind of questions comes from the children,they ask incredibly honest questions.Maybe we could learn from them,it would make the world a better place if we had the confidence to ask questions that kids ask.There is something about them that fulfils what you do as an artist as a way to inspire the next generation"

"It's more of a life partnership… I don't own him. He doesn't own me. He has to be his own person first, and vice versa… Love is freedom."

"For every woman it's important that we recognize that we have the right to figure out what works for us personally. We don't have to do what everyone else is doing. If we are good, our family is going to be good."

"I really thought happiness had a lot to do with pleasure, and I realized that happiness is about peace."

"When you've walked through the darkness of your own heart and mind ... there is no shadow you fear."

"The ego will never fail to strangle the love out of one's heart if we allow it to take center stage in our relationships. Transferring our trust to our hearts from our egos is a painful process in learning HOW to love. BUT… through it all… when we finally get to the place where we can give and receive love in its most pure state… ego free… it is only ever… beauty."

"I've always believed a woman's superpower is how deep she can love, you know? And one of the things growing up in Baltimore, I grew up around a lot of Black women that didn't have, necessarily, resources to give, right? But they had their strength and they had their love to offer."

"You gotta trust who you're with, and at the end of the day, I'm not here to be anybody's watcher. I'm not his watcher. He's a grown man. I trust that the man that Will is is a man of integrity. HE's got all the freedom in the world, and as long as Will can look at himself in the mirror and be OK, I'm good."

"If you really want to know, I'm thankful for the Hollywood scrutiny, that that's my problem. There are mothers out there losing their sons, their husbands, their daughters. I'm blessed. So scrutinize me. I'll take that any day over what the majority of my people are dealing with on a daily basis. I dare not complain."

"A man can CHOOSE to belong to someone. And if he does...he is considered noble. A woman is told she MUST belong to someone or...she is not worthy."

"We mere mortal women are worthy simply because we exist!,"

"if we so CHOOSE to bond with someone from this space … we will erect monumental love and give birth to treasures."

"I think everybody's life is their own work of art and then we have many pieces within it. I have a lot of ideas around marriage and I think it can be one of the most powerful dynamics."

"You cannot make a cake with all sugar. In one lifetime, we've lived about 20...If I had to say what kind of art piece our union is, I would say it is a tapestry."

"Having the courage to be with all that we are, even in the face of the disappointment and the anger and resentment that comes with the breaking of the romantic idea around the feminine," she explained, "part of the freedom and part of the empowerment of women is being able to withstand that."

"The cardinal showed heroic courage in tending the plague-stricken. He was also a diligent promoter of the decree passed by the council in favour of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady."

""Having savings is important in providing a financial cushion to cover any unexpected expenses, such as medical emergencies, car repairs, or job loss." – EU Reporter, 2024"

""Taking the first step to tackle your debt is a brave one – but it’s well worth it. Debt is a numbers problem and not a character flaw, and simple things like writing down how much debt you owe and creating a focused plan to tackle it, gives you your power back." – West Wales Chronicle, 2025"

""One of the most obvious upsides is the ability to split major household expenses — like rent or mortgage, utilities and internet — among more people. In a time of rising housing costs, this can make living in a desirable area much more affordable for everyone involved." – Yahoo Finance, 2025"

""The Nordic countries in particular find cashless systems useful because these systems help overcome some of their challenges, like sparse population density or harsh weather conditions that make traditional payments a bit harder. These countries also have an advantage because they have high trust in public institutions and small populations, making it easier to try out new policies." – MSN, 2025"

""It’s more than OK to splurge once in a while, especially on meaningful personal milestones like birthdays or anniversaries. In fact, planned indulgence is part of a healthy financial mindset. If you’re typically frugal, giving yourself permission to enjoy a special treat or experience once a year isn’t reckless but realistic." – GoBankingRates, 2025"

""Many of us are still working toward meeting the 50/30/20 budgeting rule. However, our analysis shows that the typical person in Arizona is actually having to dedicate 76.9% of their monthly income to cover the needs, leaving just over 23% of earnings to cover both wants and savings." – Yahoo Finance, 2025"

""To increase your saving ability, start small - even setting aside $10 or $20 per week can add up over time. Analyze your essential expenses to see if you can negotiate or switch to a cheaper option (such as health insurance) and try to contribute towards saving goals throughout the year, for whatever it is you’re looking to reduce the balance of, or for whatever figure you want to get to." – National World, 2025"

""July is likely to represent the final month before we see prices soar due to tariffs, so understanding the financial situation of the average American household is vital now more than ever." – Daily Voice, 2025"

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and they know every note by heart."

"I believe in love at first sight, all of that. I’m a very romantic person. I romanticize life. How grim and sad is your life if you can’t mythologize it? Because life is hard. So I’ve always just tried to make a story out of everything. I don’t want things to be run of the mill. I want everything to be high stakes, more vivid than average: The most interesting people you’ve ever met, the funniest dialogue, the best sex, like ever. Because ultimately, this is a gift from me, to Black women."

"I’ve seen beautiful things and terrible things. Until you, I didn’t know that they’re two sides of the same feeling. I want you, Ricki. Actually, it’s not a want. It’s an uncompromising, inconvenient need. But it’ll ruin us both."

"Humor is so important! Life is absurd. It truly is. And in The Perfect Find, the characters find themselves in some dramatic situations that call for some levity – a quip, a witticism, a bit of banter. It’s very much a Black thing to use humor to cope with outrageous circumstances!"

"Most generally, it’s the idea that we should live in a fair, equal society that doesn’t oppress, degrade, silence, ignore, or disempower women. Nobody is free until everybody is free. Most importantly, any true feminism theory must be intersectional."

"I think the thing that I’ve learned the most is that I don’t always have to write exactly about what I know."

"Why did I ever pick up a pen?! It’s hard! It’s hard because you’re not doing it for anyone else. You’re doing it for yourself and you have to be the boss and the taskmaster and if you’re tired or struggling or have writer’s block, it’s very hard to stay on top of your schedule to meet your goals."

"I think a lot of scholars don't realize how the information about the work that they've done is so tightly held and controlled by proprietary databases. Not even just the content of your papers, but just the information about it. There is no publicly accessible open source repository for all of it. Wikidata is definitely a step in the right direction. And this is something that's extremely important. This is this is why I like to I like to talk about Wikipedia and wiki projects as being like public media institutions. To contrasted this with, you know, all of the, the corporate and corporate entities that libraries and archives are beholden to. When I talk about Wikipedia with students, I think a lot of times that they immediately imagine that Wikipedia is a company like all the other companies and that's the only sort of model that they've ever considered. I think we really need to sort of sort of break through that line of thinking and the way that we do our work doesn't have to fall under the auspices of, entities like, like OCLC. I mean, not that they're not doing good work, but that, you know, that they we could create different kinds of more flexible and open models for sharing the work that we all do."

"The earliest flower drawings were for the most part made to assist the searcher after herbs and s. was desired and soon to a surprising degree achieved, for there can be little doubt, as we shall see, that the illustrations provided for herbals nearly two thousand years ago were highly naturalistic. Gradually, however, unintelligent copying led to a debased and stylised type of figure which was nothing more than a decorative embellishment to the text. With the Renaissance came a revival of naturalism, but the function of the botanical illustrator remained at first unchanged."

"... in the first century AD, the first known copies of ' ('On Medical Material') were produced, translated into both Latin and Arabic. These were written by a Roman physician of Greek origin called . In this illustrated book he covered 600 plants with around a further 1,000 medicines made from them. It was widely read for thousands of years and was regarded as a pharmaceutical 'bible' for those in practice, becoming the most influential work on medicinal plants in both Christian and Islamic cultures. Astonishingly, a copy of the illustrated manuscript, dating back to the sixth century, is still in existence, held in Istanbul, Turkey."

"Choosing the subject for a drawing or painting is an important part of the creative process. Selecting a good example of the plant you are going to paint is the first step towards a good illustration."

"The artist may not ask any questions about the species at all, but rather look at a flower as an individual of nature with its own unique features of colour, texture, form, size, and proportion. Their first question may be 'how do I capture the essence of the flower in my canvas?' Or perhaps 'how do I create a work of true beauty that may equal or surpass nature itself?'"

"The artist must decide whether the correct botanical information has been conveyed in the the drawing in the best way possible. When and flowers are huddled together they can be repositioned to give a more open design; and leaves lining up with stems can be moved slightly so that the drawing can be clearly understood. It is difficult to know whether to include insect damage and nibbled bits, as well as leaves that have been on the plant all year and look discoloured and weary. When you are illustrating a plant that retains its bare leaves all through the year, such as a , it would be unwise to tidy up the plant and remove the older leaves as this would destroy part of the plant's life history. Leaves with autumnal fruits will not appear as fresh as they would in the spring."

"It's a day which the team and I have worked incredibly hard to try to avoid but the board and I believe that this is the most responsible course of action to take."

"My heart goes out to the staff affected, and we are talking to them today to try to work out how best we can help them"

"I wasn't sorry to lose my SAGG [Slimming and Good Grooming organisation] back in the 80s"

"It'd been a very fraught involvement. I'd worked very hard, my first marriage was wrecked. I gave everything and I got gallstones."

"But everything is for a reason and through suffering gallstones I discovered the hip and thigh diet. I think the Lord put his hand on me. That I discovered low fat, I honestly believe came from the Lord. I can't deny that. I was chosen to spread the word."

"I think mine is more acceptable, it rolls off the tongue better. But it certainly reduces the whole area. More from the seat than the hips, to be honest."

"because I'm from a family where food was a very important and enticing temptation. But I didn't enjoy it much at home. Only when I left I enjoyed it, when it wasn't prepared by my mother. I became a compulsive eater – it was gluttony. Before I was born again."

"Selecting the best eating plan to help you lose weight is very much down to the individual."

"No one diet is more popular than another. It is all down to personal preference."