I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you...
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Graham Greene
What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*
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Josh Gates
The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.
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Frantz Fanon
I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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Barbara Kingsolver
More Quotes By Tim Butcher
My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category: ordeal travel. At every turn I faced challenges, difficulties and...
The normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchildren. I can think of nowhere else on the planet where the...
In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.
Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.
