“The only White man you can trust is a dead white man.” “So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.” “We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.” “[Nelson] Mandela has gone a bit too far in doing good to the non-black communities … That’s being too […]
Quotes About French Steve Martin “Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.” ― Steve Martin Stephanie Perkins “The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.” ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss Lewis Carroll “Speak in […]
Quotes About First Nations Cherie Dimaline “She hated him, this man, and these men: the ones who picked her up without expression and used her without emotion. The ones who picked her up with no more regard than they had for picking lint off the collars of their well-pressed suits. She preferred the sweaty nervousness […]
Quotes About Congo “We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.” ― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Lisa J. Shannon “I don’t know how to stop the atrocities. I don’t know how to make people care. But looking into my sister’s eyes, we seem to have carved out something between […]
Kristine K. Stevens “For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze as it bounced back up two feet and fell a second time.” […]
Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay Chris Rock “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold […]
“Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe” “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.” “We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning […]