#africa

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#fun #i #know #lifts #place

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. ↗

— Tom Peters

#any #challenge #compete #eager #global

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. ↗

— Bob Pettit

#bush #extracts #heal #many #sick

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me. ↗

— River Phoenix

#change #i #i can #learn #live

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#average #chief #companies #executives #feeling

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#furthest #i #mind #never #playing

Leaving South Africa was very difficult. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#difficult #leaving #south #south africa #very

Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#also #am #art #before #bought

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#art #been #bombarded #clothes #collecting

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#africa #best #dangerous #had #house