"As I searched the atlas for somewhere to……" — David Sedaris

"As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion was Beirut, where he went to nursery school. His family left there in the midsixties and moved to the Congo. After that, it was Ethiopia, and then Somalia, all fine places in his opinion. 'Let's save Africa and the Middle East for when I decide to quit living,' I said."

— David Sedaris

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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly… — 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… — Harry Belafonte
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single… — Mary McLeod Bethune
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more… — Steven Biko
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.… — Art Blakey
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we… — Bono

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