Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

~ Sara Sheridan

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