💬 Quotes

"Whatever you do, don't play the victim. It’s a dead end. Nobody cares, and nobody is coming to save you."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."

"I see it's a cruel world, and I'm glad I'm going where there's no more slavery."

"If it were your Harry, mother, or your Willie, that were to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning... how fast could you walk then?"

"The Lord has given me a work to do, and I must do it. I have nothing to fear but God."

"The Congo is not a country. It is a vacuum, a place where the rules of the world seem to dissolve and the only thing that matters is the immediate, brutal present."

"History in the Congo is not a straight line; it is a circle, a repeating trap of exploitation and conflict that refuses to let the people move forward."

"To travel the Congo is to peel back the layers of a nightmare and find, beneath each one, a haunting, desperate beauty that refuses to die."

"We were ghosts following in the footsteps of a giant, moving through a landscape that had swallowed Stanley whole and was waiting to do the same to us."

"The silence of the jungle is not the absence of sound, but the presence of a thousand hidden eyes watching you, judging whether you are a threat or merely fodder."

"In the heart of Africa, hope is not a grand, sweeping ambition; it is a quiet, daily act of persistence, a refusal to be broken by the world you were born into."

"A peach, a peach, a giant peach! Let's take a bite of the giant peach!"

"We are now about to visit the most marvelous places and see the most wonderful things!"

"You never know what is going to happen next in this world, do you?"

"I should say so! I should say so! I'm absolutely certain of it!"

"But my dear friends, we are not going to sink! We are going to float!"

"The peach was at last resting gently upon the very tip-top of the Empire State Building."

"To oppose something is to maintain it. The name of the game is not opposition, but unity."

"Love's as often a curse as a blessing, perhaps. That is why the lords of life and death are lovers."