#africa

Africa has no future. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#future

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

When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#african americans #athletic #award #been #conference

Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#ah #asia #blue #city #come

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

There is always something new out of Africa. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#always #new #out #something

I've been doing African dance all my life. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#been #dance #doing #i #life

We are African in origin and American in birth. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#american #birth #origin

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#being #better #better things #country #enjoyed

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#asian #because #been #both #both sides