African Quotes
YOU ARE NOT A FINISHED WORK OF ARTYOU ARE A COMMISSIONED WORK IN PROGRESSHANGING IN A GALLERY UNDER CONSTRUCTION!KEEP PUSHING!
Mayor Walmsley is using the typical Jim Crow manipulation tactics to deflect the blame and guilt. He's a classic racist politician with an ulterior motive, ” says Ora.
Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night
No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else.
Don't settle… The worst thing will be to find the man or woman that truly deserves you after you've married one who doesn't.
DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE, TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!
PEOPLE DIE THEIR ENERGY DON'T!
WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE WAYS OF YOUR ANCESTORS YOU WILL NEVER BE LOST.LET YOUR ANCESTORS BE YOUR GUIDING LIGHT.
And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free.
Laziness has made our cities unclean. If we begin to work and act appropriately, we will clean our cities of any dirt.
Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.
It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others––especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!
Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.
Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?
Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.
Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.
It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.
Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives
His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.
Christopher's heart bled that night and he could not sleep. Deborah who used to call him numerous times in a day and send countless messages was now not answering his calls. And she never called him.
The long rays of sun stretched across the street and touched the twisted mabati tin roofs of the shops, creating a soft light that dulled the dust and rust, making them look almost beautiful.
We all have scars. Just because mine are hidden doesn’t make them any less painful.
When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but has no idea what it means. He only knows that it sounds pretty.
Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion.
He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty.
How do I negotiate my way across life with a system that I find so violent yet it seems so normal to many others?
It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.
Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.
What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?
Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.
A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.
Be persistent, be persistent, they say. But please, do not mistake being a pest for being persistent.
Hi Lady, Hi Woman.., all that Naomi had, all that Mary had, all that Esther had, all that Elizabeth had, YOU ALSO HAVE... Go, make your dreams come true!
I've never seen anyone as beautiful as you, sweetheart. All supple and voluptuous, a mountain of curves I can't wait to climb.
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with situations they may never have encountered.
See, you don't wanna be a Jew. Too much work--there's a lot of holidays but it's even more work. It's sanctioned oppression, it's God's tyranny.
Some people in orthodox churches in Africa take poverty as a path that leads to heaven, making christianity look unattractive.
There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.
Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.
But how wonderful when the tale is told, And the message that is meant for usOpens like the scents of a mountain flower!
What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour.
When their voices didn't reach my ears, I rebelled against my own skin too young to realize that without their stories I would starve.