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Diaspora Quotes

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

Greg Egan
Years, Branches, Diaspora

Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you.

Ze'ev Jabotinsky
Diaspora
"Iron Wall" by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, 1937.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Louise Brown
Book, Diaspora, Fiction And Nonfiction

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Kiran Desai
Writing, Diaspora, Lucky
"The publishing world is pretty heinous: Kiran Desai". Interview with Nabanita Sircar, www.indiatoday.in. October 30, 2006.

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

Mohsin Hamid
Country, Pakistan, Diaspora
"The Pakistan election has given me hope that one day the country can once again become my home" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2008.

Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

Mohsin Hamid
Numbers, Media, Diaspora

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

George Papandreou
Greek, Diaspora, Proud

Jews and Gypsies were well-nigh the only Diasporas in 19th century Europe. Now go to London, it is a collection of Diasporas.

Zygmunt Bauman
Europe, Diaspora, London
Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

An impressively researched and documented collection of the finest thought produced by writers throughout the African Diaspora. A magnificent achievement.

Henry Louis Gates
Achievement, Diaspora, Finest

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