Ali Mazrui Quotes
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
Ali Mazrui
Quotes to Explore
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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I love Africa.
Naomie Harris
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
Oliver Tambo
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
Patricia Marx
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
Umberto Eco
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
Laura Esquivel
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.
Nick Antosca
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You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
Ali Mazrui
