All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
FRAN LEBOWITZ
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Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
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