#africa

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #africa




So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.


Boutros Boutros-Ghali


#always #because #behind #happy #i

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.


Paul Tsongas


#any #cease #china #corner #democracy

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.


Chris Tucker


#africa #concerned #going #know #missing

George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.


George Dawson


#slavery #life

How can I explain this? Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above. Your pit, your ties, your fear. you are lifted, you slowly rise like a hot-air balloon, and all you see is the space and the endless possibilities for losing yourself in it.


Francesca Marciano


#love #love

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.


Zora Neale Hurston


#women #love

Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.


Taona Dumisani Chiveneko


#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.


Alan Paton


#alan-paton #cry-the-beloved-country #south-africa #love

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?


Daoud Hari


#conflict-resolution #darfur #education #inspiration #the-translator

My horizon lightened, I see an old woman. Who is she? Where is she from? Bent over, the ends of her boubou tied behind her, she empties into a plastic bag the left-overs of red rice. Her smiling face tells of the pleasant day she has just had. She wants to take back proof of this to her family, living perhaps in Ouakam, Thiaroye or Pikine. Standing upright, her eyes meeting my disapproving look, she mutters between teeth reddened by cola nuts: 'Lady, death is just as beautiful as life has been.


Mariama Bâ


#death #life #beauty