#africa

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#african-american #amp #any #culture #did

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. ↗

— Alan Paton

#contribution #creative #different #each #envision

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. ↗

— Alan Paton

#central #concern #issues #novel #publishing

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government! ↗

— Trevor Rabin

#africa #around #couple #government #growing

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are. ↗

— Antony Sher

#belong #constantly #courage #gay #groups

Payton “Sin” Sinclair was an unapologetic people-watcher. As a sports consultant, working with some of the biggest and most recognizable athletes in sports and business, he had to be able to read the smallest nuances of others. That ability was just one of the unique attributes that set him apart from the competition and made him the go-to person when corporations wanted to align themselves with the top professional athletes in the country. ↗

— Francis Ray

#family-saga #friendship-and-love #illness #new-release #romance-novels

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end. ↗

— Robert R. McCammon

#death #elephants #death

What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.* ↗

— Josh Gates

#death #life #philosophy #death

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. ↗

— Barry Finlay

#africa #clean-water #climbing #education #inspirational

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; if is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#civilization #education #education