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Africa Quotes by Wilbur Smith
- I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will…
- I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
- I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent…
- Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best,…
- Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch…
- I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be…
- Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my…
- I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of…
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