#africa

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#foresight #africa

In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#coming #eli #gunn #jones #katie

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#unicef #africa

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. ↗

— Chris Abani

#humanity #world #africa

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#africa

In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving ↗

— Dambisa Moyo

#africa

Hay quienes quieren llegar a la luna, mientras nosotros aún estamos tratando de llegar a la aldea ↗

— Julius Nyerere

#africa

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running. ↗

— Christopher McDougall

#africa

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#africa

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. ↗

— William Labov

#african american #american #becoming #dialects #different