Quotes About African Kings

#1. In a few thousand years, I who regard you will also have sprung from the loins of African kings.

William Faulkner

#2. You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

Matthew J. Kirby

#3. I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.

Sefi Atta

#4. The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.

Heinrich Heine

#5. Remember how beautiful you were?" he whispered. It was a cruel thing to embed in a woman's compact, but he'd found a million uses for the thing. Made him feel like he was helping it redeem itself.

Clovia Shaw

#6. Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks.

Simone Elkeles

#7. Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Max Weber

#8. Everybody has two legs, two lobes to the brain which is why we tend to be interested in symmetry, always balancing things.

Gore Vidal

#9. Forgetting our objectives. - During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, 1844

Robert Greene

#10. As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland]. And then, as a person, I had never been to the African continent. So, I knew, personally, it would reshape me.

Forest Whitaker

#11. Authenticity always and absolutely carries a demand and duty: you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.

Ken Wilber

#12. Every prayer - every thought, every statement, every feeling - is creative.

Neale Donald Walsch