The effects of quotes on the life of the reader depend on their current state and how they will receive the message. Throughout life, Africans have used proverbs, quotes and wise sayings to guide them in their day to day activities.
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Inspiration comes from within. |
Quotes might also be a source of knowledge.
10 quotes to inspire your African Spirit
1. “If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the
torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going.
Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”
Harriet Tubman, An African-American activist.
2. "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but
he who conquers that fear."
Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president.
3. “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
Prof. Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Author.
4. "There is no passion to be found playing small – in
settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
Nelson Mandela.
5. "Africa must revert to what it was before the
imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our
pan-African concept, will seek to remove."
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's independence hero.
6. "The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and the
nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of destiny. Africa will
not retreat, Africa will not compromise, Africa will not relent, Africa will
not equivocate, and she will be heard! Remember Africa."
Robert Sobukwe, South African political activist.
7. "Never be limited by other people’s limited
imaginations.”
Dr. Mae Jemison, African American Nasa astronaut.
8. "The journey to freedom is full of sacrifices, tears,
hunger, clothes full of lice, blood and death."
Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan Land and Freedom Army (MauMau) general.
9. "If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big
enough.”
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Liberia.
10. "Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."
Oprah Winfrey, African American media personality.
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