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Let’s be modest. Africa is vast, and it would be pretentious to speak in its name. I’m fighting the battle with words because I’m a storyteller, a griot. Rightly or wrongly, they call us masters of the spoken word. Our duty is to encourage the West to appreciate Africa more. It’s also true that many Africans don’t really know their own continent. And if you forget your culture, you lose sight of yourself. It is said that “the day you no longer know where you’re going, just remember where you came from.” Our strength lies in our culture. Everything I do as a storyteller, a griot, stems from this rooting and openness.

– Sotigui KouyatéRate it:

American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out Wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out Wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections.

– Med JonesRate it:

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

– Joseph AddisonRate it:

What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction.

– David L BorenRate it:

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

– Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.Rate it:

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.Rate it:

Achieving world peace, or peace on Earth requires a strong emphasis on knowledge, openness, freedom of information and dialogue.

– Oscar Auliq-IceRate it:

As someone born outside the UK, I see one of this country's biggest strengths as its openness to the rest of the world, and the people of it. As a major employer and backer of the economy we have a duty to ensure that we reflect that, the diversity of those who make up this bank at every level is key to our success. In uncertain times I want to ensure that everyone understands that.

– New Zealand-born McEwanRate it:

At the moment I would say we're seeing a lot of openness, indoor/outdoor living and a lot of use of glass.

– Andreas IseliRate it:

But it seems to be the rebel side that is more concerned about the trajectory at this moment, while the regime camp enjoys momentum, the regime itself never showed much openness for compromise even in its most vulnerable moments, so we can expect its current sense of momentum to further reinforce maximalism as Damascus pushes for a decisive military upper hand.

– Noah BonseyRate it:

China's policy in the South China Sea stands in stark contrast to the openness of our strategy, what our strategy promotes, it calls into question China's broader goals. China's militarization of artificial features in the South China Sea includes the deployment of anti-ship missiles, surface-to-air missiles, electronic jammers, and more recently, the landing of bomber aircraft at Woody Island.

– Defense Secretary James MattisRate it:

Contrary to the public vitriol of the moment, the North Koreans were willing to reopen the New York channel following the election of President Trump and his administration signaled an openness to engage and ‘talk about talks,’.

– Keith LuseRate it:

Facebook needs to show more openness and transparency when dealing with user data.

– Nadine SchoenRate it:

For the Iranian people not to have the chance to experience what America has to offer, the spirit and the openness, would be a real shame, there is a chance to open the dialogue between the people of Iran and the West, and it's a point in time that's unique.

– Dara KhosrowshahiRate it:

How about the prime minister showing a degree of honesty about the arrangements he's actually made with Northern Ireland, it is a question of openness.

– Jeremy CorbynRate it:

I feel increasingly, in light of current events, that I want to be around that kind of openness, i think subliminally that’s probably the most important part.

– Sienna MillerRate it:

I had to go there and do it because getting into the field with the soldiers and gaining the trust of the soldiers that you embed with is crucial and key, if you don’t have their trust and they don’t believe that what you're doing is a fair shake for them, they won’t give you that access, and they won’t give you the openness that you need to produce something like that.

– Ricky SchroderRate it:

I think privacy is a very important thing for Iranian people, the question is how much freedom, how much openness with others, how much we can connect with the city?

– Alireza TaghaboniRate it:

I think that what Congresswoman Omar was trying to get at was a deeper issue related to our foreign policy, and I think there's an important discussion that we have to be able to have openly even though we may end up disagreeing at the end of it. We've got to be able to have that openness to have the conversation.

– Tulsi GabbardRate it:

I think the appeal of the openness is two-fold — it’s, one, that they want to know what is occurring with the embryos, are there children born from these embryos, and that they have children that are genetically related to these children fully.

– Kimberly TysonRate it:

I think the most important thing is that the parent communicates a willingness to talk about this, an openness about it, that parents are really attuned to where their children are in this, even just asking a general question, 'Have you heard about this?' and see where your kid goes with that.

– Glenn SaxeRate it:

I ’m so grateful that Fox News gives Concerned Women for America the freedom and openness to talk about issues from a biblical worldview.

– Penny NanceRate it:

If an LDS temple has been announced in Shanghai, I think it means they probably had a' go' from Chinese officials to do so, even if the government says it is a unilateral statement -- they actually have no interest in making a bilateral statement, because that would send a message of religious openness.

– Pierre VendassiRate it:

If Britain's openness is a condition for bilateral co-operation, then mutual trust is the very foundation on which this is built.

– Liu XiaomingRate it:

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