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Tim Butcher
“Mining might convey an image of industry or technology, but I found this was not the case in the Congo. In the so-called ‘mines’, a brutally primitive process was in place involving what was effectively slave labour clawing minerals from the earth so that they could be shipped to eager cash buyers in the developed world. President Kabila headed what was effectively a cobalt and diamond cartel, while two rival factions (one backed by neighbouring Uganda, the other by Rwanda) divided up the rest of the country’s resources. Crudely, Uganda got gold and timber, and Rwanda got tin and coltan – a mineral used in mobile telephones.”
Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

Traci Medford-Rosow
“Sober, gainfully employed, and physically secure once again, Kevin began to relax. His confidence slowly returned. For the first time since the onset of his blindness, he let his guard down and a crack in his carefully constructed veneer formed.
Light flooded in.
And with it, hope.”
Traci Medford-Rosow, Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight

Maya Angelou
“No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”
Maya Angelou

Richard Wright
“From far beyond the horizons that bound this bleak plantation there had come to me through my living the knowledge that my father was a black peasant who had gone to the city seeking life, but who had failed in the city; a black peasant whose life had been hopelessly snarled in the city, and who had at last fled the city—that same city which had lifted me in its burning arms and borne me toward alien and undreamed of shores of knowing.”
Richard Wright, Black Boy

Aesop
“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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