1950s Quote by Katharine Hepburn

“The trouble with Africa is that once it is in your blood, like malaria, it is almost impossible to get rid of, and I…

— Vic Guhrs The Trouble with Africa

“When you live in the jungle you have to live by its rules; the strong get to make it to tomorrow while the weak…

— K'wan

“It was at this time I learned that the human mind is a blackened overgrown place. Society tries to mow the lawn and trim…

— Marisha Pessl

“I have lived my life in the shelter of too many northern alliances. I have made alliance with the gentle cow, the health department,…

— Robert Ardrey

“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready…

— Toni Morrison

“That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not…

— Walter Dean Myers

“migrations which would swamp whole populations and turn countries now white into colored man’s lands irretrievably lost to the white world.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“The world isn’t that black-and-white, is it? It doesn’t all boil down to with or against. Some of us just want to stay alive.”

— Victoria Schwab

“If I’m lucky, like today, I get to be the U.S.A., which is a country-country; who doesn’t know that the U.S.A. is the big…

— NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names

“People change, you know. When you leave your country, you are like a plant taken out of soil. Some people turn hard, they can't…

— Abraham Verghese

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.

— Bill Gates

“LOOK AROUND. GAME DEAD, RIVERS BLACK, LAND CHOKED WITH WEED. SKIES BLEEDING, RED AS BLOOD. FOR WHAT? YOUR KIND ARE BLIND. YOU SEE ONLY…

— Jay Kristoff