Darkness Quote by Alexander McCall Smith
““He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place.””
![“Everything, all those great things, had happened so far away--or so it seemed to [Mma Ramotswe] at the time. The world was made to sound as if it belonged to other people--to those who lived in distant countries that were so different from Botswana; that was before people had learned to assert…” quote by Alexander McCall Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1a3/alexander-mccall-smith-372_africa_everything-all-those-great-things-had-ha_2150106.jpg)
