Africanist Historiography Quotes

#1. V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.

Darin Strauss

#2. Do not worry at being worried; but accept worry peacefully. Difficult but not impossible.

Johnny Appleseed

#3. I can tell you what women need in general. They need respect and love. They need to be able to trust your word and to be able to confide in you. So often, we can't care for ourselves in this world, so we need protection and provision.

Tracie Peterson

#4. My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

Pete Seeger

#5. Anything can happen. And there is no good reason why it shouldn't happen to you. Always remember that.

Katie Delahanty

#6. There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.

Alice Walker

#7. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. Whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Rebecca West

#9. Devoid of life, it was also devoid of the Dead.

Garth Nix

#10. Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.

Nicola Tesla