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# Telling Times: writing and living

Telling Times: writing and living (1954) by Nadine Gordimer Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime and to her leadership role over the last 20 years in confronting the dangers of AIDS, globalisation, and ethnic violence. The range of this book is staggering, from Gordimer's first piece in The New Yorker in 1954, in which she autobiographically traces her emergence as a brilliant, young writer in a racist country, to her pioneering role in recognising the greatest African and European writers of her generation, to her truly, courageous stance in supporting Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC during their years of imprisonment. Given that Gordimer will never write an autobiography, Telling Times is an important document of twentieth-century social and political history, told through the voice of one of its greatest literary figures.

## Quotes

* The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
** pg 121
* A desert is a place without expectation.
** page 313
* There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
** Page 418
* The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
** Page 409
* Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
** Page 357
* Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
** Page 277
* Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
** Page 425
* Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
** Page 119
* Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
** Page 409
* Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
** Page 411
* The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
** Page 132

## External links

* books
* Goodreads
* the guardian
# Temi Otedola

Temi Otedola (born 20 March 1996) is a Nigerian actress and also a blogger. She is known for playing the role of Moremi Oluwa in the 2020 film Citation.

## Quotes

* It's never too late to be a good person!
* “Value your energy. Value your time. Time is a finite resource you can never get back or buy. What are you doing with the 24 hours you get each day? Stop waiting for the right moment. The time is now. I’m really out here trying to live my life to the fullest these days. Who’s joining me? ”
* At the end of the day, you may as well try and fail than not try at all.
* It’s more like a feeling; a sense of peace I don’t seem to feel with anyone else. It’s feeling like you have found your best friend, your own person and also your soulmate. I really don’t know how to describe it. It feels just like home.”
# Temitope Solaja

Temitope Solaja is a Nigerian film actress, screenwriter and film producer.

## Quotes

* There is nothing wrong with dating a fan. Are they not human beings? In as much as the person is caring and loves my job, I can definitely date or marry a fan. However, I won’t go for someone that doesn’t love my job.
* I cannot marry a man who would restrict my success. He knew I was an actress before approaching me, so why would he restrict my success? That means such a person is selfish and doesn’t appreciate what I am doing. Why would I settle down with a man that will restrict my success
* Some people are frustrated on social media. If they don’t say negative things about you, they won’t get well. I just block such people; I don’t have time to entertain them.
* No matter how long the road, it will lead to your destination
* For now I am not facing any challenges because I have overcame my problem and fear back then. Today, I am grateful to Almighty God because He is the foundation of everything and He has been faithful to me.
* In five years, I would be everywhere and would be a role model to the world because by then I believe I will be an international icon in the movie industry. And by then, I will also be a wonderful mother.
# Temper

Temper is a word used to denote a variety of qualities. It derives from Temperare (to mix correctly) the Latin origin of words like "temperature" and "tempering"; it and "tempo" come, in turn, from tempus (time or season). Thus, the word "temper" can refer (at least informally) to any time- and temperature-sensitive process, a material's thermo-mechanical history, or even its composition.

## Quotes

* Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
** Anonymous proverb; though often attributed to Chuck Norris, this seems to have appeared at least as early as 1961, in an edition of The Physical Educator
* Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.
** Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, as quoted in Day's Collacon : An Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations: (1884), p. 930
* Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude.
** Washington Irving, in Gems for the Fireside (1882) by Otis Henry Tiffany, p. 48
* The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
** François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims and Moral Reflections (1791), CLVII, p. 48
* A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered.
** Proverbs 17:27, (New International Version)
* When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.
** Rumi, Jewels of Remembrance : A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance : Containing 365 Selections from the Wisdom of Rumi (1996) Translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski, IV, 771-4
* Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.
** Walter Scott, as quoted in "Gleanings from Many Minds" in The Guernsey magazine (October 1876)
# Teenagers from Outer Space

Teenagers from Outer Space is a 1959 film about a young alien and a teenage earthling who fall in love, and plot to stop the alien's race from using Earth as a food-breeding ground for giant lobsters from their planet.
    Directed and written by Tom Graeff.

## Derek

* You make me angry. But I like you very much.

## Captain

* When we return to our planet, the high court may well sentence you to torture and death for your treason.
* We are the supreme race. We have the supreme weapons.
* I must resume radiovision contact!

## Other

* Thor: I will find you. I will find you. I will find you. I will find you. Ahhhhhhggg.
* Hilda: [Upon discovering the skeleton in Simpson's office] I'm not going to keep a job where this sort of thing goes on.

## Dialogue

    Betty Morgan: Derek, this is Alice.
    Alice Woodward: Derek! Hey, I like that. Come on in! The water's fine!
    Joe Rogers: [looking upon Sparky's skeleton] You know, I don't get this guy. Animals or humans. He just seems to like killing.
    Detective Mac: There's more to it than that, Joe. There's something behind this... something we don't understand. The weapon he uses, it's unheard of. Blasting flesh right off the bones.
    Derek: Betty, when you learn where I'm from, well... you will not understand but, I hope it will not make any difference between us because...
    Betty Morgan: I don't care where you're from. I don't understand all this, but somehow I feel that I've always known you, that we've never been apart!
    Captain: Morrow! Go below and bring up the young gargon specimen. Now the decision depends on its reactions.
    Derek: Wait, Captain. I have found evidence of intelligent beings on this planet!
    Thor: Of what concern of foreign beings?
    Derek: Of none to you, Thor! Just as you were so unconcerned when you destroyed this small creature, so bravely!
    Thor: It was no more than an insect.
    Derek: But it had life. And that life you had to take to satisfy your endless hunger for killing.
    Betty Morgan: You won't be going back ever, will you?
    Derek: I shall make the earth my home, and I shall never, never leave it.

## Taglines

* Teenage hoodlums from another world on a horrendous rampage!
* They blast the flesh off humans!
* Thrill-crazed space kids blasting the flesh off humans!
* Before - A Beautiful Girl. One Moment Later - A Skeleton!

## Cast

* David Love — Derek
* Dawn Bender — Betty Morgan
* Bryan Grant — Thor
* Harvey B. Dunn — Gramps Morgan
* Tom Graeff — Joe Rogers
* King Moody — Spacecraft Captain
* Helen Sage — Nurse Morse
* Frederick Welch — Dr. C.R. Brandt, MD
* Jim MacGregor — Detective Mac
* Sonia Torgeson — Alice Woodward

## External links

* Teenagers from Outer Space quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Teenagers from Outer Space at Allmovie
# Tehmina Durrani

Tehmina Durrani (Urdu: تہمینہ درانی; born 18 February 1953) is a Pakistani author, artist, and activist on women's and children's rights. Her first book, "My Feudal Lord" (1991), shocked the conservative Pakistani society because of the sensational exposure of her politically famous but abusive husband, Mustafa Khar.

## Quotes

* Feudalism was a licence to plunder, rape and even murder. The rich got richer; the poor despaired.
** My Feudal Lord. Tehmina Durrani. 1991
* I announced 'Jehad' - a movement to represent the silent majority to raise controversial issues that most people feel afraid to speak about. It liberated me from the corrupt politics that I had witnessed. I decided to stand apart and away from the mainstream of the rotting political system and the deficient and self-serving politicians that consumed our national wealth and exploited our people.
** My Feudal Lord. Tehmina Durrani.
# Teitur Lassen

Teitur Lassen (born 4 January 1977 in Hoyvík) is a singer-songwriter from the Faroe Islands.

## About Teitur Lassen

* He's utterly melodic and hopelessly romantic, and when he performs live, he robs the air from your lungs. Oh, and he's devoid of any charisma or star power whatsoever.
** John Mayer on why Lassen's career is stalled despite having talent in the same league as Coldplay and David Gray. From Mayer's September 1, 2004 column in Esquire magazine.
* Teitur Lassen speaks for the broken-hearted, who, for the most part, may be too timid to speak for themselves. His first effort is shamelessly honest and hints at very beautiful things to come.
** Dominic Urnile's review of Poetry & Aeroplanes from Prefixmag.com.
# Odafe Atogun

Odafe Atogun is a Nigerian writer.

## Quotes
### Taduno's Song (2016)

* Studying the handwriting on the envelope, his eyes lit up in recognition. But then a frown crept across his face and he wondered how a letter simply marked TADUNO—no last name, no address, just Taduno—managed to reach him in a nameless foreign town.
** Page 1
* Build a life elsewhere.
** Lela's words to Taduno. Page 3
* Did you have to sneak home like a thief in the night?
** Page 3
* You showed up claiming to be somebody we know. We all see you as a man who has lost his identity—in fact, a man who has lost his mind…
** Page 24

## External links

* Goodreads
* Taduno's song
# Oda Gasinzigwa

Oda Gasinzirwa is the new chairperson of the National Electoral Commission, swearing in on Wednesday, February 15, 2023

## Quotes

* The changes in the electoral process and synchronisation would not require a referendum as the electoral law already exists and would be amended accordingly, in agreement with all stakeholders.
** https://www.ktpress.rw/2023/02/rwanda-eyes-synchronising-legislative-presidential-polls-in-proposed-electoral-reforms/ KT Press February 15, 2023
# Oded Fehr

Oded Fehr (23 November 1970) is an Israeli film and television actor now based in the United States.

## Quotes

* The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility. Things like that I learned in the army.
** Interview with Oded Fehr (2001)
* I'll tell you what the most important and enjoyable thing for me is: getting notes. A director that enhances my performance by seeing things onscreen and then telling me, "Why don't we do that? Why don't we do this?" Directors who understand a little bit more of the psyche of what he's looking for and can put that in words. I work great with notes. I really am able to elevate with getting notes from other people and hearing other people's opinion and I think that's for me the best thing about working with a great director.
** Interview: Oded Fehr (August 15, 2007)
# Odd Squad: The Movie
## Weird Tom

* Psyche! Tom Bomb! I am so taking down Odd Squad.

## Quotes

    Ms O:
    Otis and Olympia: Something Odd is happening.
    Ms O: Always!
    Big O: Odd Squad has been around for thousands of years, these challenges has made us better and stronger. But, Weird Team is our biggest challenge yet. So, how can Odd Squad compete? We cannot! We give up! Weird Team has beat us fair and square. Henceforth, I am shutting down all Odd squads.
    [Olive, Otto, Oscar, Otis, Olympia, Oona and Ms O, suit up their Odd Squad, agent and scientist uniforms. And then, they strike a pose.]
    Oscar: How long do we have to hold this pose for?
    Oscar: Yeah! So, that’s pretty much about it for all the secret stuff.
    Oona: Hey! What does that button do?
    Oscar: This one? It ends the movie. [presses the button that ends the movie]
# The Conservationist

The Conservationist (1974) by Nadine Gordimer The book tells the story of a conservative, white, South African “developmentalist” business-tycoon named Mehring who decides to buy a large ranch/farm outside of Johannesburg. At the beginning of the novel Mehring justifies his purchase as a matter of keeping up a certain level of conspicuous consumption and creating a remote place to seduce married women. While he continuously tries to imagine and live the farm as a kind of edenic nature retreat, his fantasies continuously run afoul of the realities of an apartheid-era farm. He is unable to see past his arrogant delusions of romantic nature without people, even though his farm is created and maintained through the labor of a large number of (black African) people who live and work on the land for a pittance. Mehring appears only on weekends and holidays, but this does not stop him from ordering his farm manager, Jacobus, to do all sorts of bizarre, misinformed, or detrimental work on the farm (which Jacobus quietly resists). The bounds of Mehring’s narrow, small imagination are pushed at through his illusions of his liberal ex-lover, who taunts his judgements and opinions at every turn, yet fails to pierce his studied obstructionism and willfully blind privilege

## Quotes

* A farm is not beautiful unless it is productive. Reasonable productivity prevailed; he had to keep half an eye (all he could spare) on everything, all the time, to achieve even that much, and of course he had made it his business to pick up a working knowledge of husbandry, animal and crop, so that he couldn't easily be hoodwinked by his people there and could plan farming operations with some authority.
** Gordimer.
* He rolls onto his side, where he has the impression the reeds facing him hide him as drawn curtains keep out day. The sense of familiarity, of some kind of unwelcome knowledge or knowing, is slow to ebb. As it does, it leaves space in his mind; or uncovers, like the retreat of a high tide, carrying away silt.
** Gordimer
* You don't have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense -- there's a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.
** Antonia
* To keep anything the way you like it for yourself you have to have the stomach to ignore -- dead and hidden -- whatever intrudes. Those for whom life is cheapest recognise that.
** Mehring

## External links

* — The Conservationist
* goodreads
* Britannica
# Rita Nwadike

Rita Nwadike (born 3 November 1974) is a Nigerian former football midfielder who played for the Nigeria women's national football team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the club level, she played for Rivers Angels. She scored Nigeria's first ever FIFA Women's World Cup goal against Canada in the 1995 tournament in Sweden.

## Quotes

* We need to take more positive steps. There’s no argument about the availability of talent. We have an abundance of talents, but we need to put in structures such as football academies.
** Her opinion in an interview
# Rita Ora

Rita Sahatçiu Ora (Albanian: [ˈɾita sahatˈtʃiu ˈɔɾa]; born Rita Sahatçiu; 26 November 1990) is a British singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence in February 2012 when she featured on DJ Fresh's single, "Hot Right Now", which reached number one in the UK. Her debut studio album, Ora, released in August 2012, debuted at number one in the United Kingdom. The album contained the UK number-one singles, "R.I.P." and "How We Do (Party)". Ora was the artist with the most number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart in 2012, with three singles reaching the top position.

## Quotes

* "None of us want anything good to go, and that’s another reason why I work really hard."
* "I can’t tell you the rules, but I can tell you, in my opinion, that if you are your best self, then the best will come to you."
** A Star is Reborn by Sophie L Walker. July 10, 2023. Retrieved 9/11/2023.
* "Of course I suffer from insecurities, like everyone else,” she adds. “But they drive me to do more."
* "I’ve never drawn within the lines. I’d like to think all the mistakes I’ve made, and all the decisions I’ve made, I own up to. I don’t run away from them."
** Rita Ora: ‘People have judged me my whole career. ‘Is she too naked?’, ‘Can she say things like that?’ I find it extremely misogynistic’ by Deborah Joseph. May 11, 2023.Retrieved 09/11/2023.
* " I wanted to tell a story of finding love, but it went deeper than that, because to find love, you have to find who you are, what makes you happy."
** Rita Ora: ‘The dream of fame is very different to the reality’ by Neil McCormick. July 7, 2023. Retrieved 9/11/2023.
# Rita Nzelu

Rita Nzelu is a native of Ozubulu, Anambra State, Nigeria and attended University of Nigeria where she got her degree.

## Quotes

* I left Nollywood and traveled out of Nigeria because of marriage. I left so as to join my husband. I believe a woman should join her husband and not the other way round.
** Rita Nzelu's Words
* I can tell you, I now have three boys to take care of. My husband and two sons.
** Rita Nzelu's Words
* I decided to concentrate on my family but of course I was abreast with happenings in the industry
** Rita Nzelu's Words
* I do not feel I missed anything. There is time for everything as far as I know. I left Nigeria and Nollywood when God wanted me to leave. I am very happy that what came in terms of marriage at that time and which took me away came when it came.
** Rita Nzelu's Words
* Marriage, There Is More To It Than Riches.
** Rita Nzelu's Words
# Rita Orji

Rita Orji is a Nigerian-Canadian computer scientist who is a Canada Research Chair in Persuasive Technology and the Director of the Persuasive Computing Lab at Dalhousie University. Her work is in the area of human–computer interaction with a major focus on designing interactive systems to achieve health and well being objectives.She has won over 70 awards and recognitions from both national and international organizations.She has addressed a United Nations panel about the status of women and at the Parliament of Canada.

## Quotes

* The truth in life is that if you are somebody that has not seen money before if you see money you’ll start shaking.
* So I want to beg the people of Ajegunle, don’t allow people use you to stop good projects.
# Rita Sanchez

Rita Sanchez (born May 20, 1937 in San Bernardino, California) is an American academic in the field of Chicana/o studies.

## Quotes
### "Chicana Writer Breaking Out of the Silence" (1977)

From De Colores, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1977: pp. 31-37. Anthologized in Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings
* The Chicana writer, by the fact that she is even writing in today's society, is making a revolutionary act. Embodied in the act of writing is her voice against others' definitions of who she is and what she should be. There is, in her open expression and in the very nature of this act of opening up, a refusal to submit to a quality of silence that has been imposed upon her for centuries. In the act of writing, the Chicana is saying "No," and by doing so she becomes the revolutionary, a source of change, and a real force for humanization.
* By becoming a writer, the Chicana has to have already rebelled against a socialization process that would have her remain merely the silent helpmate. Everything in her society, the schools, the church, the home, has sought this goal for her: she must be sheltered from the evils, noise, confusion, from the realities of the outside world, from sex to politics, even at times from intellectual dialogue, to be considered acceptable. In short, she should make no intrusion into adult or male conversation. Now, the Chicana, by voicing her own brand of expression has rejected the latter in favor of telling anyone who wishes to read her work, hear her voice, exactly what she is not, and who she, in fact, is.
* Writing, breaking the silence, subjective as it may appear, becomes a monumental and collective act because it signifies over coming, freeing oneself from the confines and conditions of history.
* More and more the Chicana woman is emerging out of a traditionally imposed silence.
* As long as we remain silent, no voice exists. Our right to speak, to voice ourselves is stripped from us; if you do not hear us, no voice exists and no one will notice our absence. Verónica Cunningham through poetry admonishes our silence.
* Chicanas are being called upon today to put their thoughts down in writing, to share their emotions with others, thus beginning the process, the chain reaction that might spur others to self-expression and creativity. Our depth as Chicana women must be shared, in fact, is urgently needed so that others might hear the prophetic voice. This sharing is essential; it is the spirit of our people. This process creates a new awakening, a breaking out of silence, a revolutionary act. The burden is finally on us, on all Chicanas to break out of silence, to be present to all others who may themselves benefit from a voice, one that is both fearless and the penetrating conscience of the people.

## External links

* Chicana por mi Raza page
# Rita edochie

Rita Edochie is from Anambra State and is Igbo. In 2016 she revealed that she was sexually assaulted in primary school and gave birth to a child.

## Quotes

* I have never snatched another woman’s husband
* You can’t be living in evil, yet you come out everyday to profess your love for God…thanking him over something he has no hand in. Be very careful, God is not mocked""
* You can’t be living in evil, yet you come out everyday to profess your love for God
** https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/11/i-have-never-snatched-another-womans-husband-rita-edochie/
* !!Snatch my husband anyhow; I will correct you by sending you to God knows where!!
** www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/612525-release-yul-the-man-you-snatched-rita-edochie-tells-judy-austin.html
* !!A woman has no right to return the bride price of a man; rather it is the man who moves to the woman’s hometown with his kinsmen to ask for the return of the bride price, the same way he went to pay initially!!
** newtelegraphng.com/rita-edochie-reacts-to-yuls-demand-of-bride-price-from-may/