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"Anyone who sees beauty and does not look at it will soon be poor" From a Yoruba poem Following this advice, why not look at this wonderful collection of photos from the many faced, many layered continent of Africa. |
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"Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds"
~ Elspeth Huxley, "The Flame Trees of Thika"
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"There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa..."
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Beryl Markham, West with the Night
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"In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky" -- Thabo Mbeki |
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Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little"
~ L Douglas Wilder
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Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.
~ Miriam Makeba
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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered"
~ Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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"There is no difference between growing old and living" Kikuyu proverb |
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"Hold a true friend with both your hands"
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Nigerian proverb
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"The remedy against bad times is to have patience with them" ~ Egyptian proverb |
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"When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth" ~ Ethiopian proverb |
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"Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa" ~ John Gunther, Inside Africa |
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"It's really beautiful. It feels like God visits everywhere else but lives in Africa"
- Will Smith
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"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. "
Maya Angelou
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"Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice" ~ Beryl Markham, West with the Night |
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"However long the night may last, there will be morning" ~ Moroccan proverb |
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"There is no better mirror than an old friend" ~ Cape Verdian proverb |
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"Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above."
~ Fransesca Marciano, "Rules of the Wild"
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"When you leave Africa, as the plane lifts, you feel that more than leaving a continent you're leaving a state of mind. Whatever awaits you at the other end of your journey will be of a different order of existence.."
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Fransesca Marciano, Rules of the Wild
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