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I'd been told that when you first put your feet on African ground, you'll be hit by a feeling of overwhelming understanding, like you've returned home and suddenly belong. Quite frankly, I didn't feel that.

— Jill Scott

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

— Naomie Harris

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

— Maya Angelou

I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

— Rosa Parks

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

— Anthony Trollope

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

— Robert Mugabe

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

— Mem Fox

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

— Jill Scott

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core.

— Stephen Lewis

✗Opposing Perspectives

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there - it's like nowhere else on the planet.

— David Oyelowo