Quote Genre: Africa

Proverb – ‘He sins as much who holds th…

‘He sins as much who holds the bag as he who puts into it.’

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W.E.B. DuBois – ‘It is a peculiar sensation t…

‘It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of others…. One ever feels his twoness an American a Negro; two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in … Continue reading

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W. E. B. Du Bois – ‘It is a peculiar sensation t…

‘It is a peculiar sensation this double-consciousness this sense of always looking at one?s self through the eyes of others…. One feels his two-ness an American a Negro; two souls two thoughts two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one … Continue reading

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Lawrence Summers – ‘Ive always thought that unde…

‘Ive always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. [Chief economist of the World Bankexplaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.]‘

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A. Whitney Brown – ‘A group of white South Afric…

‘A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.’

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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce – ‘TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY n. An…

‘TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY n. An African insect (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is commonly regarded as natures most efficacious remedy for insomnia though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (Mendax interminabilis).’

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Paul Robeson – ‘In my music my plays my film…

‘In my music my plays my films I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.’

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Mary McLeod Bethune – ‘The drums of Africa still be…

‘The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.’

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Sir Robert Baden-Powell – ‘Softly softly catchee monkey…

‘Softly softly catchee monkey is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.’

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Imamu Amiri Baraka – ‘The African because of the v…

‘The African because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.’

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