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Africa Quotes by Isak Dinesen
- When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
- Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated,…
- I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
- If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields…
- There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought that…
More Africa Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy… — Mary McLeod Bethune
- In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko
- Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Bono