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Guardian: Gary Younge - Archives of his columns for the Guardian newspaper about world and British politics.
Guardian Books: Top 10 travel books - Gary Younge, author of No Place Like Home, part travel book and part inquiry into cultural history, shares his favourites.
Guardian Books: On the freedom road - Extract from No Place Like Home, A Black Briton's Journey Through The American South, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2000.
Observer: Are my roots showing? - With an identity including Britain, Barbados and the American Deep South, Gary Younge describes how he started his journey to America to follow in the path of the freedom riders of the 60's - and to write No Place Like Home.
BBC: Correspondent: Minister of Rage - For months, The Guardian's Gary Younge followed the rise and rise of the charismatic Minister Louis Farrakhan. His film report examines why the leader of the Nation of Islam is still barred from entering the UK. Includes video of Gary's interview with Vibert White plus full programme transcript and viewers' comments.
University Press of Mississippi: No Place Like Home; A Black Briton's Journey through the American South - Review of Gary Younge's travelog, social commentary, and journey to self-discovery, the story of a black Englishman's amazing trek through Dixie to connect with his racial identity.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Don Stanford By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Younge, Gary "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Younge, Gary When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois Younge, Gary Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Younge, Gary Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown Younge, Gary "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Younge, Gary Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Younge, Gary The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Younge, Gary I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Younge, Gary All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be cr Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Younge, Gary This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Younge, Gary You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Younge, Gary Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. -- Kin Hubbard Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Younge, Gary Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Younge, Gary Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Younge, Gary Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Younge, Gary When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Younge, Gary There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Younge, Gary Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Younge, Gary "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Younge, Gary University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Younge, Gary Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Younge, Gary
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