Wise African Quotes

#1. I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

Charles Haley

#2. A balanced diet is a cookie in both hands.

Paula Deen

#3. For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.

Tim Wise

#4. Hanging with people who make you feel unappreciated, for the mere sake of appearing to be popular, is the loneliest place to be.

Ellen J. Barrier

#5. It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Terry Pratchett

#6. And suddenly in the middle of the day a strange feeling grips you. The feeling of missing someone. The warm embrace and the tight hug and the tenderness...

Avijeet Das

#7. A word to the wise ain't ...

Bill Cosby

#8. When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.

N.D. Jones

#10. What a mighty nation, we will be, if we encourage one another?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Enough," he said; "the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough." "True - true," I replied;

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.

Chinua Achebe

#13. We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.

Hilary Mantel