Backgrounds Quote by Wilbur Smith Download Open image “I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.” — Wilbur Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backgrounds Biographies Book Books
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how,… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia, publishing a… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones. — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at Forty-Ninth Street Elementary School in South-Central Los Angeles. I was in the fifth grade. — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large cast of characters and traces an ongoing conversation among the writers and critics of this period. This book is likely to become a model for a new generation of scholars, both for the breadth of… — Werner Sollors Copy Share
Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
“uninvited help he might offer would be rejected. He was surprised and delighted when she placed a hand on his shoulder as she climbed… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I used to own an island in the Seychelles and had a big boat there and one day I came across some Somali pirates… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
