Famous quotes containing the words african proverb, white, south and/or african:
“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
—White South African proverb.
“For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)
“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the soldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England’s hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)