1,044 Quotes About Africa

On ne doit pas laisser le passé glisser dansl'oubli, mais s’en inspirer pour briser les chaînes de la vassalité et de l'exiguïté afin de rencontrer la liberté.

He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.

Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE.

She raises her hands to the sky and breathes it in, she starts spinning, enjoying the feel and energy of this Africa. She floats, her long skirt swaying with the dry grass in the breeze with her spirals, her sandaled feet covered in dust. She is part of Africa. She has never felt so free and happy.

Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity.

The major problem in Africa is neither politics nor Apartheid. It is the deep hatred of a Black Person by another Black Person.

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

To understand Africa you must understand a basic impulsive savagery that is greater than anything we civilised people have encountered in two centuries