Giles Foden Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.”

“The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.”

“To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.”

“At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.”

“I can't think of a specific meal, but my favourite country for food has got to be France. I love those restaurants in the middle of the village squares.”

“I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as you bump along in a Land-Rover. I go back there often.”

“In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.”

“It's the swirling river of time that makes our identities, not the monochromatic simplicity of skin colour or the definitive lines of international borders.”

“Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.”

“The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.”