Famous quotes containing the words african proverb, west, african and/or proverb:
“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
—White South African proverb.
“It is queer how it is always one’s virtues and not one’s vices that precipitate one into disaster.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
“Fast bind, fast find,
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)