Africa Quote by Nadifa Mohamed

“We were carried for many days in houses that went on wheels and flew along like birds. And now it seemed as if the…

— Claire Prentice

“Look at them leaving in droves despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong, knowing…

— NoViolet Bulawayo

“They died, Highness, even as they delivered those thirty thousand refugees to safety. They died, but they won.”

— Steven Erikson

“They had traveled, escaped and recovered.”

— Nikki Sex

“Several thousand peasants were loaded at gunpoint onto lorries and deported hundreds of miles from their homes and then left without food or money…

— Paul Preston

“Sometimes we are called back to the things we most want to flee, perhaps because they left such a mark that we don’t know…

— Laura van den Berg

“They were about to continue a journey that had really started long ago. A journey that had been strangely interrupted, that even now someone…

— Alexander Key

“The truth was...none of that kept people from leaving. Nothing could, if the person was determined to go. The only question was how long…

— Cora Carmack

“The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors—and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“It is only when a traveler has reached his goal that he is justified in discarding his maps. During the journey, he takes advantage…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“All they knew, they had left behind, and what lay before them was the unknown; uncertainty was the only thing that was certainly ahe​ad.…

— Gume Laurel III

“In the end, they will say this of the human race: they had the freedom to go anywhere, but sat in front of the…

— Craig Stone