Famous quotes containing the words enslaved and/or african:
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas’ mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)