Quote by Teju Cole Download Open image ““Dignified refusal can only take you so far. Ask the Congolese.”” — Teju Cole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some neighbouring countries of Dem. Rep. of the Congo are full of ambitions and they will bring their own downfall in the near future.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or could wrest… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the… — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“To the Africans throughout the Congo conscripted to work on these and other new enterprises, the Great Depression, paradoxically, brought lifesaving relief.” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“What if I can't save Congo, but I try anyway? Would it be better to do nothing? Did he abolitionists really think they could… — Lisa Shannon Copy Share Image
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone’s life. Once under way, mass killing is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a merchant's hand,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten...Generations rushed through the eye of the needle, and I, one of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“As I contemplated the silent world before me, I thought of the many romantic ideas attached to blindness. Ideas of unusual sensitivity and genius… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
