African Tribes Quotes

• Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.

  Bob Pettit

  Sick, Used, Heal

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• What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.

  Alexander McQueen

  Dresses, Looks, Way

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• No creo equivocarme al afirmar que los objetos más bellos de la "edad de piedra" estaban hechos de piel, tela y, sobre todo, madera. La "edad de piedra" debería llamarse la "edad de la madera". ¿Cuántas estatuas africanas son de piedra, hueso o marfil? Quizá una entre mil. Y el hombre prehistórico no disponía de más marfil que las tribus africanas. Tal vez incluso menos. Debió de tener miles de fetiches de madera, todos desaparecidos ahora.

  Pablo Picasso

  Hermoso, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Independent, Blood

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.25, Villard

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• …the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Special, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (1991). “The blind watchmaker”

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• Aquí está la lista completa de las palabras prohibidas que utilicé: homosexual activo; mujeres de carrera; Tercer Mundo; negros; asiáticos; Australasia; Bangalore; tribus primitivas africanas; tullido; en silla de ruedas; labio leporino; minorías étnicas; minusválido; solterona; suicidio; gitanos; Bombay; hija ilegítima; azafata; gemelos siameses; Calcuta; oídos sordos; solicitante de asilo ilegal; provincia de Irlanda del Norte; abuela; soltero.

  Rod Liddle

  Hija, Suicidio, Abuela

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• Mi conocimiento íntimo de muchas tribus centroafricanas me ha convencido en todas partes de la necesidad de que el negro no respeta los tratados, sino sólo la fuerza bruta" - General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha sobre el África Sudoccidental Alemana "A nivel individual, la violencia es una fuerza purificadora. Libera al nativo de su complejo de inferioridad y de su desesperación e inacción, le infunde valor y le devuelve el respeto por sí mismo.

  Frantz Fanon

  Yo, Sin Miedo, Desesperación

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• American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Country, Missionary, Might

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Great War: The Triumph of E. D. Morel", p. 157, 1957.

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• Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, Black, Criticism

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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