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Everyone these days is concerned so much with privacy and forgets the value of human touch. We still need each other but are scared of how it might sound or appear to the other.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Have you ever entered a kitchen to find a woman, her legs crossed while the rest of her body is dressed in colourful khanga, smiling at you while her hands are making a melodious song with a coconut grater? Have you ever wondered how any woman size can fit on that grater regardless of their body size? The time for wondering is over. East Africa heartily welcomes you to see for yourself. Go and visit it.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

May you grow to be a fearless and proud accepting-self human.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

You will experience a lot of imaginings as usually is for humans although we tend to pretend that all our thoughts are septic and moral. Feelcomfortable with your thoughts. Trust me dear child, no human is spared from wild thoughts and you too will have them. Nothing should limit you my child. But the minute you decide to speak out your thinking or live them, you should be ready for the consequences too.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

One should use well a mouth for someone will remember your words and the manner they were spoken. One should pose well in a body for someone will remember your image and how you carried it. One should serve well for someone will recall the kindness and spread it among humanity.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

The moment of honouring our humanity is now.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Stop worrying about life, no one survived it.

~ A.j. Shazad

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

~ O.a. Battista

What might be considered loyalty in onesociety might not necessarily be the same for another.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Life at home is at a pace which allows you to appreciate what it has to offer. Simultaneously you get a chance to reflect on what you wish from it. Our development also goes at the same pace, which is not something that everyone appreciates.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

What are the lessons intended in the stories we tell to our children today?

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

I was taught how to walk but I did not master the cheating steps of others.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

She refuses to support the slogan - Men are equal to women - if this translates to her femininity being faded out or confused by trying to please a selfish idea of anyone wanting a woman to be both herself and a man.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

To be a woman is not a weakness.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

She is a woman, how can you confuse her for a man?

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

We all say and do things we regret, but it’s never to late to change, apologize and become a better person

~ Thomas Amo

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

~ Deols

Without ambition, no goal can be met.

~ Kya Aliana

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

~ Juliet Marillier

Sometimes you want to remember. And sometimes you need to forget.

~ Lisa Schroeder

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day.

~ Nikki Rowe

And you finally get there, you reach a point where you refuse to feel anymore pain and the desire to chase happiness out weighs any choice that gives you reason to question where you're headed.

~ Nikki Rowe

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is accepting and neutralizing the fear with the power of love.

~ Debasish Mridha

True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be courageous enough to forgive yourself, never forget to be compassionate to yourself.

~ Debasish Mridha

Do it anyway. Fear will melt away.

~ Debasish Mridha

Don’t desire kindness but desire courage so that you may persist on the right path.

~ Debasish Mridha

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

~ Debasish Mridha

With courage, always go where you fear to go.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love and kindness is the source of courage.

~ Debasish Mridha

I’ve always thought that the reason the devil approached Eve and not Adam is because the devil Recognized the power, courage, and tenacity of a woman, the world would have you believe that eve was a weaker sex and that is why the devil approached her, But think about it, a weak person would never disobey let alone desire to be God.

~ Micheline Jean Louis

For beautiful success, serve with love and serve with courage.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.