"How can I turn from Africa and live?" — Derek Walcott
"How can I turn from Africa and live?"
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Derek Walcott
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37 Quotes by Derek Walcott
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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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The English language is nobody's special property.
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Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached…
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The classics can console. But not enough.
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I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a…
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A culture, we all know, is made by its cities.
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh…
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The word and the shadow of the word / makes a thing both itself and something else / till we…
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To change your language you must change your life.
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The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the…
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More Africa Quotes
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one of 1,183 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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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
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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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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