Zones of Ethiopia - Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region

Famous quotes containing the words southern, peoples and/or region:

“My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white;”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)