"As a kid in Africa, you were so……" — Ishmael Beah
"As a kid in Africa, you were so connected to nature itself because you went farming, watched the moon out at night, observed how the sky was different, and how the birds chanted different songs in the evening and the morning."
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33 Quotes by Ishmael Beah
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We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet…
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ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn’t sure when or where…
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My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.
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My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be…
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This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.
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I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was…
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This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an…
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I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with…
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How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?
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I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so…
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I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war?…
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The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about…
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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…
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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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