Was that life? Well then, once more!
The Grameen Bank Ordinance with amendments up to 2008 is a beautiful legal structure for the fulfillment of the ideals and objectives of the bank. Any change in this structure will be devastating for the bank.
People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.
All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed. . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, ‘You are labor. ’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
I could do all of my activities at Howard because it was an environment that had essentially rid the ideology of false choices that I feel absolutely constricts young black students.
Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?
I don't think you can get away with putting your talents in a toilet bowl and not having them flushed away. Forever. There is a level of murder of one's soul and of the culture that they're supposed to be feeding vitamins to.
I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet. . . I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.