The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

  • -- Chinua Achebe 奇努阿切贝

在过去的四五百年里,欧洲人与非洲的接触产生了大量的文学作品,这些作品把非洲描述得非常糟糕,用非常耸人听闻的语言描述非洲人。其原因与为奴隶贸易和奴隶制辩护的需要有关。

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In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

从一个非常简单的意义上说,我希望作品中的所有东西都在那里,因为它是必要的。它不是装饰品。不是因为我觉得它好看,而是因为它必须在那里。

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

我做这件事不是因为普遍存在的潜在的贪婪,而是因为贪婪,在正确的时间做正确的事情,在你拥有影响力的时候运用你的影响力,用什么理由做什么。

You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of the game, so there's no more of those big huge guys who just fight.

你不可能在曲棍球上变得伟大。你需要柔韧……他们甚至把打架从游戏中剔除了,所以不再有那些大块头只会打架了。

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

你需要知道的是,我一直想成为一名乡村歌手。我没有选择电视或杂志封面。

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

电影是文学、戏剧、音乐和所有视觉艺术的复杂碰撞。

I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

我是一个文学动物。对我来说,一切都以文学结束。