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“I think that tech might be our way out of poverty.” On the role of technology in transforming economic futures in Africa.

— Blessing Abeng

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You always just have to show that you’re the better person in every space that you go into.

Seeing people’s lives change or watching them be just a little bit better is very inspiring for me.

Being able to be scared and still do things and be successful in them is inspiring, the people around me are inspiring.

It’s not that audacity doesn’t belong to women, it’s that women don’t know that they can harness it to the best of their ability.

It’s okay to be the first, but it’s not okay to be the only.

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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