"I realized something profound: love is it's own entity. It stands by itself or else I wouldn't have been able to remain in love without the man who inspired it."

"It wasn't love. It wasn't romance. I don't know what to call it, but it was much more refreshing than fairy-tales and deceitfully implied suggestions of a future together"

"I used to make calls to magazines all the time. I wasn’t discovered. I made them discover me,”"

"There were all kinds of organizations in the Black community who were glad to accept me."

"“Having come from the South, it didn’t bother me, because I wasn’t used to talking to white people, anyway,."

"I’d done a lot of reading, and I felt like the North was the place to be,” she said. “There was nothing to do in my hometown that used what I had. I had no freedom. Back in those days, every job you could get had to be with a Black company because no one else was hiring Black women."

"“I don’t really understand how anybody cannot be an activist in this time and age. We all have an opportunity to be who we want to be, to encourage our children to be what they want to be, and to provide for them so they can become the people they want to be."

"I’m still myself. I just can’t remember things as well as I once did"

"Martha Stewart has presented herself doing the things domestics and African Americans have done for years...We were always expected to redo the chairs and use everything in the garden. This is the legacy that I was left. Martha just got there first"

"I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes"

"While Asia will continue to be the driver of world trade for the foreseeable future and will produce ever larger ports, I believe Europe will continue to prosper when it comes to other aspects of supply chain"

"It is an immensely challenging environment out there and much difficult and less charming than it was 50 years ago"

"Over the last 20 years the situation in Gioia Tauro has drastically changed. Italian rules are complicated and many other competitors such as Taranto, Cagliari, Algeciras, Valencia, Port Said, Damietta, Piraeus and others came up. The volumes decrease of the Medcenter Container Terminal is linked mainly to the economic slowdown in China"

"When you climb a mountain, sometimes you slip, you change jackets, but in the end, all mountains are climbable."

"Women in the company are just as important as men, it depends on how they behave. My rules? No pants; they shouldn't judge us by our clothes."

"I wanted a pink ship. It was a crazy idea, but it worked."

"Not having children of my own was certainly a very hard choice, but also a very clear and rational one."

"A husband can sometimes be inconvenient, but children are."

"A great help in my life came from someone up there who loved me and helped me."

"“I think it is women who feel inadequate in a man’s world more than men creating obstacles.”"

"If I have to name one special attribute of LSCT, it is the superior transit time we offer which results in saving end-to-end supply chain cost for shippers in Asia"

"While the average rail freight in Italy is below 10 per cent of the total throughput, the figure is 35 per cent in La Spezia. This means about three out of every ten containers are transported in or out of our port via trains"

"In the meantime, while I think North European ports, such as Rotterdam and Antwerp, will continue to be amongst the top performing ports in the region, I think other ports will catch up. In fact, if there is peace in North Africa, I think the Mediterranean will attract more ships due to our location."

"“Sometimes the wave of life lifts you up, it pushes your ship, the wind gusts in the same direction, it blows the spinnaker up and you just go. You are at the ship’s wheel, but it’s the wind energy that leads you further, and you feel that incredible and dangerous sensation of ruling the forces of nature.”"

"Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would be as serious as that"

"I was so grief-stricken and had my guard down, which I never allow. I remember trying to drink and eat something and choking. I could speak, but I coughed a lot"

"We had spent two weeks in Port Elizabeth, where we buried my dad. On my way back to Johannesburg I fell so ill that I had to be carried in a wheelchair straight from the plane to hospital."

"When civil war broke out [in 1989], we had to run. The members of the troupe and I lost track of each other for a while. I returned to the artists’ village, even though war was raging around me. I felt that that was my home and my fellow artists made up my family. Those of us who made it back started focusing our art on issues of war and peace. I started to compose songs, and became a lead singer as well. One of my songs, “We Need Peace, No More War,” was adapted by the Liberian women’s peace movement, and became an important part of their rallies. The leader of that movement, Leymah Gbowee, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011."

"My biggest fear is the loss of our traditions. With that loss we lose the opportunity to work towards peace through these types of songs and dances that have been so meaningful for Liberians through the centuries."

"I do think about my legacy. I hope that my music has a positive impact, and that whatever constructive changes result will lead to better and better things, for individuals, families, and communities."

"The voice, sound, and lyrics are all magical tools in getting to people’s hearts. People relate to music faster than you’d expect. Music has a great capacity to deliver a crucial message, or even a number of messages, in a very short time. Part of the reason I’ve relied on music and dance to inspire Liberians to pay attention to critical issues is that traditionally, these arts have been important means of communication for our communities. Music and dance start dialogues, and motivate people to take action."

"Racism is a stark reality. A simple historical timeline reveals its origins in 439 with the Theodosian Code, the Roman Decree of 1557, the Himmler Decree of 1938 and its Order of 1943, the Alhambra Decree of 1492, the Intercatera Bull of 1493, the Declaration Act of 1705, the Punishment of 1640, and the Black Code of Louisiana of 1724. All these realities are what motivated our Constitution in its Article 5, paragraph a, to impose as foundations of Equatorial Guinean society the scrupulous respect for the human person, their dignity, freedom and other fundamental rights, whose extension is developed in its Article 13."

"one of the pioneers in the fight for equal opportunities in Equatorial Guinea."

"I woke up this morning to heartbreaking news. Evangelina Filomena Oyo Ebule, Second Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, has passed away in the Kingdom of Spain,"

"In my country, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and as confirmed by our delegation to this World Conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of associated and related intolerance, the states, organizations and governments that were involved in and/or benefited from slavery, the slave trade and colonialism must immediately restore the honor of our peoples and states by immediately undertaking the following actions, among others"

"The consequences of these racist tragedies create serious challenges to peace, global security, human dignity, and the realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms for people in the world, and particularly for Africans and other populations of African descent."

"We are aware that the consequences of slavery, the slave trade, and colonialism, and in particular poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion, economic disparities, instability and insecurity, major endemic and pandemic diseases, AIDS, malaria, sexually transmitted diseases, trafficking in women and children, affect people in developing countries much more. Therefore, we urge that the international community in general, and the countries that have benefited from the atrocities committed by racism, the slave trade, etc., must now agree and adopt measures in favor of our countries that have been victims."

"Life is long, and there are always obstacles,Whatever I do, I do clearly with all my strength."

"She opened a photographic studio in Ingham, Queensland before moving to Mareeba in 1904, where she established a new studio until she moved to Brisbane in 1914."

"She was featured in the Magnificent Makers exhibition at the State Library of Queensland in 2018."

"Her photographic work provides information on people and places in the pioneer days of North Queensland."

"If you ban music in Mali, or in the whole world, it's like cutting people's oxygen off"

"My music makes me feel young."

"My objective is to see the young girls singing, taking the stage, and doing things for themselves. There are many more women who have become artists — 70 percent of new artists (in Mali) are women — and even those who don’t have the voice to sing accompany others in dance groups or they dance. A lot has changed, even in my city of Timbuktu."