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Africa has her mouth on Moses.
(Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, playwright and anthropologist. Author's note, from Moses Man of the Mountain, ch. 8.)
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Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.
(Jean Genet (1910-1986), French playwright, novelist. Felicity, in The Blacks (1958, trans. 1960).)
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Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
(Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990), British author. Letter, December 1948, to Henry Miller. The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-80 (1988).)
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Africa? A book one thumbs
Listlessly, till slumber comes.
(Countee Cullen (1903-1946), U.S. poet. Heritage (l. 31-32). . .
My Soul's High Song; the Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance. É Gerald Early, ed. (1991) Doubleday.)
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that arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot
Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe,
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Spain, 1937 (l. 65-66). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abrams, general ed. (5th ed., 1986) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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There is always something new out of Africa.
(Pliny The Elder (23-79), Roman scholar. Natural History, bk. 8, sct. 17.
Greek proverb quoted by Pliny; Out of Africa was the English title for Isak Dineson's 1937 account of her years in Kenya, filmed in 1985.)
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual—masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
(Christina Stead (1902-1983), Australian novelist. James Quick, in For Love Alone, ch. 30 (written 1944, published Virago, n.d.).
Lived and wrote in the U.S. and England.)
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I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.
(Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, playwright and anthropologist. Mother Catherine.)
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America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Address Delivered in Concord on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies, August 1, 1844," Miscellanies (1883, repr. 1903).
Edward Emerson notes that "Boston Hymn" sings a similar sentiment. Emerson is not commenting on the nature of African civilization, but noting the barbarity of the slave trade on its shores.)
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I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?
(Derek Walcott (b. 1930), Carribbean poet. A Far Cry from Africa (l. 28-33). . .
Collected Poems, 1948-1984 [Derek Walcott]. (1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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