Africa Quotes
They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.
We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.
He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.
I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home
Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...
Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.
The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga
I have forsaken her for a place I will never belong, but will always remain under her spell, forever to be, a child of my motherland.
Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
In the biological sense, race does not exist.
Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
We all have our alloted portions of black and white paint
Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve
... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.
.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?
Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial
Don’t cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.
Don’t under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don’t think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.
Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.
But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not the one being arrested.
- Mr. Berg, Are you an Afrikaner?- Yes-And are you proud of it?-I am not ashamed of it, but I am not proud of it, for in fact I had nothing to do with it.
No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process
The doctrines that have been preached in our churches in Africa and globally has not been helpful for believers to dominate the earth.
There are not so many murders in this township, I think to myself, and not so few policemen, that a killing should be treated like an old woman who has lost her cat.
If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective.
She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.
It's very difficult not to come across as a white supremacist when there are so many black inferiorists around.
When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.
... cynicism is the only tool that can scrape away the tint off rose-coloured glasses.
Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.
Blood is a reservoir of delights. It is a treasure trove for those who know what to look for, and how to isolate it from the rest of the junk. I know how to do both.
The funnel of my family’s salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman’s toes
Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser's padlock.
Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.
As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.
