By Simon M. Heathcote-Parker,
“Apart from California and New York, Americans are not known for their intelligence. Merely for bad manners and aggressive behaviour.” ______________ Simon M. Heathcote-Parker, Sept. 2010.
December 2015
by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850.
“I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” ______________ In Memoriam” (v.27) by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850.
A HYMN TO LIBERTY. by Gibran Kahlil Gibran(2013)
From the depths of these depths We call you, O Liberty – hear us! From the corners of this darkness We raise our hands in supplication – turn your gaze toward us!
By Bayo Oladeji.
“Your yesterday is your curriculum vitae but however beautiful it is you can add more to it and this is why your future is greater than your past. People use your CV to give you an offer but God looks at your future to give you an appointment. Surely His ways are not our ways. …
By Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden itself.” ______________ Oscar Wilde, The Illusion of Dorian Grey, 1891.
A GOVERNMENT OF SADISTS
On the night of 12th December 2015 in the city of Zaria, Kaduna state, Sheik El Zakzaky, the leader of the 10 million-strong Shia muslim community in Nigeria, was shot, brutalized and dumped in a wheelbarrow. He barely escaped with his life but sadly, according to Iranian government sources and the New York Times, his …
By Haile Sellasie.
“Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ” ______________ Haile Sellasie.
TRUE LOVE IS VERY RARE
“True love is very rare. If you ever find it, hold on to it, appreciate it, nurture it, express it and cherish it.
By Enoch Powell M.P.
“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy to which our accurst “love of peace” can lower us are unfathomable …
By Rotimi Fani-Kayode.
“My identity has been constructed from my own sense of otherness, whether cultural, racial or sexual. The three aspects are not separate within me. Photography is the tool by which I feel most confident in expressing myself. It is photography therefore — Black, African, homosexual photography — which I must use not just as an …