Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist “The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.” America Body Europe ♥ 3
RW Ruth Wilson Actress “Leaving Europe in my mind wasn't the best thing; it's not the best way of having that political voice. But that's the only voice people in Britain could have. People turned out in their droves to vote, more than for prime minister. So it was huge and very divisive.” People Voice Europe ♥ 3
Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist “I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.” Use Europe Gone ♥ 3
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist “The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.” Country Europe Latin ♥ 3
Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor “The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.” Country Europe Army ♥ 3
Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader “My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe.” Facts Europe India ♥ 3
Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader “India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.” Europe India Village ♥ 3
Hamid Drake Drummer “When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.” Way Creative Europe ♥ 3
Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter “In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.” People Europe Being Free ♥ 3
Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister “The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.” Men Jesus Europe ♥ 3
Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister “My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance.” People Dark Europe ♥ 3
Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader “An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity.” Giving Feet Europe ♥ 3
