People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

  • -- Abdullah Ibrahim 阿布杜拉·伊布拉罕

人们说奴隶是从非洲来的。事实并非如此:人们被从非洲带走,其中包括医生和牧师,并被奴役。

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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

我能否说,我今天站在这里的原因,你知道,从国务院自己的口中,是:我不应该被允许旅行,因为我为非洲殖民地人民的独立奋斗了多年。

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

在自己身上发现达尔文理论有效性的这些奇怪的启示是令人不安的。如果我们确实是由无尾猿进化而来的,那么有时我自己的春天似乎并不遥远。

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

我们所有的人——你和我,甚至是在非洲前线的成千上万的士兵——我们非常希望战争能够结束,但只是在学术上。

It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

偶尔出现在报纸上很酷,人们读到关于你的报道,知道你是谁。

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

这是一个陈词滥调,大多数陈词滥调是真实的,但就像大多数陈词滥调一样,这个陈词滥调是不真实的。

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

人们在冒险去做自己喜欢的事情之前,必须先经历真正的痛苦。