Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?
I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.
No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.
When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
