After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.
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 Isak Dinesen
It is an alarming experience to be, in your person, representing Christianity to the natives.
After being told that the Professor “found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God, ” Isak thought, “Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?
The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, –the minor key, –to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who...
The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.
After a little while you became aware of how still it was out here. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel like it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world,...
