American statesmen might like some Europeans more than…

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to…

— A. B. Simpson

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

— Samantha Power

“...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially…

— Pablo Picasso

My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only…

— Frantz Fanon

Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes;…

— Rod Liddle

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s…

— Alexander McQueen

Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in…

— Ibn Warraq

I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely…

— Joyce Carol Oates

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

— Alberto Gonzales

Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children…

— Anna Quindlen

As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975,…

— Michael Chabon

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in…

— Mitch Daniels

Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time,…

— David Suzuki

The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from…

— Anonymous