"When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up."
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"When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'"
"When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done."
"Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are."
"I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile."
"How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?"
"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."
"Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero."
"O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?"
"Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows."
"Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge."
"Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world."
"To know thyself--in others self-concern; Would'st thou know others? read thyself--and learn!"
"You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it."
"I don't know whom or what he was defying. [...] [M]aybe the God he had never believed in."
"Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope."
"Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are."
"I know I'm going to get in trouble!"
"Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know."
"It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time."