africa
You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.
— Gerald Freeman
You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Female is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
— A.A. Gill
You have to understand – there is a romance to Africa. You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the hand of God. Furthermore, you watch the slow lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. Furthermore, you marvel at the tripod of a giraffe bent to water. In Africa, there are iridescent blues on the wings of birds that you do not see anywhere else in nature. In Africa, in the midday heat, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.
— Jodi Picoult
You keep distracting from the main point, Vida. I did not come to Harare to study other people’s scars. I have my own to worry about. They make me sick. I will never recover from the events that carved them into my body. You should focus on healing yours instead of creating new ones.
— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
— Karen Blixen
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.
— Alexandra Fuller
Young girls frequently report that their early sexual experiences were coerced. In a study in South Africa, 30 percent of girls report that their first sexual intercourse was forced. In rural Malawi, 55 percent of adolescent girls surveyed report that they were often forced to have sex.
— Njovana Watts
Young men and women are causing wealth loss to their generation because they are sitting on inert ideas, bottled-up potential energy and scratching the ground when they should be gliding the skies and perambulating with the stars. These people are so disillusioned they live life without any urgency.
— Nana Awere Damoah
Your eyes betray a sadness that only a worthy man can conjure, but never solve
— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
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