Black Africa

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or africa:

    Lo, thus, as prostrate, ‘In the dust I write
    My heart’s deep languor and my soul’s sad tears.’
    Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
    To blot the sunshine of exultant years?
    James Thomson (1834–1882)

    America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)