A Quotes
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“Afraid that my head might burst through the roof, I head for the mall. I have ten bucks in my pocket—what to spend it on? French fries—ten bucks’ worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy.”
Source: Speak
“Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we become separated from our own souls. We end up living divided lives, so far removed from the truth we hold within that we cannot know the 'integrity that comes from being what you are.”
Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
“Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen.”
Source: Identical
“Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.”
“Afraid to go outside but more afraid of what might come inside, the Armstrongs stayed holed up in room 1401, skipping a buffet breakfast of salted frog’s legs and yellow-belly salamanders.”
Source: Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel
“Afraid to live, too cowardly to die.”
Source: Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven
“Afraid you won’t be able to keep up,” needled Volant, interrupting. “I thought you were The Fastest Flier in the Sky?!”
“Really,” said Gabby. “That’s how you’re going to play this?”
“Yep, slowpoke, that’s how I’m going to play it.”
And without another word, Volant the eagle launched into the air, pointed south, with not so much as a glance back.”
Source: Bat Cave: A Fable of Epidemic Proportions
“Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home.”
“Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.”
Source: The Doorbell Rang
“Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?”
“Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?”
Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of a lioness and forget to breathe. 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 heart, you can see blisters in the atmosphere. When you are in Africa, you feel primordial, rocked in the cradle of the world.”
“Africa! Africa! Africa!
Africa my motherland!
Africa, your people cries for you!
Africans must educate their citizens.
Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.
Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education.
Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.”
“Africa and Africans has succeeded in destroying our culture and traditional by accepting the effect of colonialism on the strong foundation that once held our fathers together...I believe that there is a supreme being and that as long as you believe in him no matter your religious difference or mode of worship things will work out for you, I PRAY GOD HELP AFRICA IN BELIEVING IN THEMSELVES ONE DAY.”
“Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.”
“Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa”
“Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.”
Source: The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World
“Africa can’t always keep living on donations and charities, or to keep begging on the developed countries, as every free thing has got its invisible cost attached to it.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Africa, despite all the cruelty it suffered, has never wanted to call for an interracial war of blacks against whites. This is what makes the greatness of the African people, This generous and just attitude of Africa must remain unchanged.”
Source: White Poison: A Black Christian is a Traitor to the Memory of his Ancestors - Africa Wake Up!
“Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.”
“Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.”
“Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.”
“Africa es la madre de la humanidad. Y ellas son las madres de Africa. De aquí surgió el primer ser humano. Y era mujer.”
Source: África Sueño de Sombras Largas
“Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!”
Source: Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
“Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.”
Source: African Stories
“Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and to some foretaste of apocalypse. Nowhere is day more vivid or night darker. Nowhere are forests more luxuriant. Nowhere is there a continent more miserable”
“Africa has been brought back to its knees and this generation can’t take it any longer.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.”
“Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.”
“Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.”
“Africa has her mouth on Moses.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them”
“Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.”
“Africa has no future.”
“Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.”
“Africa has not yet matured to a level of holding elections and before that time comes Africa only holds ethnic censuses to determine which tribe has more people than the other.”
“Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.”
“Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language?”
“Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment.”
Source: Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
“Africa is a very special place, the people are very special there. There is a lot of love, and a lot warmth and a lot of light that is there. I think that if we aren't careful with places like Africa, in terms of the way that we set up our way of living, which now I think that most of the world operates on. If we don't focus on the steps towards creating a more peaceful structure right now, we could possibly wipe out full nations, cultures and species as as we have in the past.”
“Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.”
“Africa is an article of faith. I believe in this continent.”
“Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment”
“Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.”
“Africa is closer to me in every way than Iraq or Syria.”
“Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds”
“Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.”
“Africa is for "Africans," and on those premises, only Africans can change Africa. Western's handouts will not do it.”
“Africa is God's country, and He can have it.”
Source: The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
“Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice”
Source: West with the Night