Kumbuka African Quotes & Sayings

Don't let your rage overcome you no matter in what situation. — Gosho Aoyama

One Saturday morning last May, I joined the presidential motorcade as it slipped out of the southern gate of the White House. A mostly white crowd had assembled. As the motorcade drove by, people cheered, held up their smartphones to record the procession, and waved American flags. To be within feet of the president seemed like the thrill of their lives. I was astounded. An old euphoria, which I could not immediately place, gathered up in me. And then I remembered, it was what I felt through much of 2008, as I watched Barack Obama's star shoot across the political sky. I had never seen so many white people cheer on a black man who was neither an athlete nor an entertainer. And it seemed that they loved him for this, and I thought in those days, which now feel so long ago, that they might then love me, too, and love my wife, and love my child, and love us all in the manner that the God they so fervently cited had commanded. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego. — Garth Risk Hallberg

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man (if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on). — Wyndham Lewis

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane. — Eckhart Tolle

Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love? — Mary Balogh

A couple of ounces ruled your life. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Far out of sight forever stands the sea,
Bounding the land with pale tranquillity. — Yvor Winters