Congo Quote by Anjan Sundaram

I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in…

— Anjan Sundaram

Visit to Africa reshaped my point-of-view of colonialism. It reshaped my point-of-view of my own sense of source, and my own place of birth.…

— Forest Whitaker

The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.

— Anthony Bourdain

I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in…

— Anjan Sundaram

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the…

— Ernest Hemingway

I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I…

— Maurice de Vlaminck

There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places…

— Paul Theroux

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

— Dikembe Mutombo

The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development…

— Wangari Maathai

I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

I go to play for Congo now and it's a reality check. You see how it is for some people and you don't take…

— Yannick Bolasie

I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love. It had…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein