“Africa has no future.”– V. S. Naipaul Related Quotes “Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.”– Mattie Stepanek “The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.”– Terry Eagleton “We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance.”– Patti Stanger