South African Hip

Famous quotes containing the words south, african and/or hip:

    “The white gulls south of Victoria
    catch tossed crumbs in midair.
    When anyone hears the Catbird
    he gets lonesome.”
    —Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    “The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas’ mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.
    Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

    “He’s a man who shoots from the hip. And a man who’s hip when he shoots.”
    —Jeremy Larner, U.S. screenwriter. Banquet master of ceremonies (Pat Harrington, Jr.)