Africa Quotes

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face. Steven Biko
Great World Gift Face Giving Great Gift More Come Look Industrial Powers Still Done May Wonders Human Africa Human Face
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. Stokely Carmichael
Distinguish Corrupt Guns Put Leaders Dogs Africa Them Uniforms Certain Shoulders Hard
The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that. Yaya Toure
Life You Respect People Money Better Will Difficult Earn Easy Eat More Mentality Come Survive Africa African Different To Survive Your European Start
In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care. Akon
Age Care Important Over dont Care Africa
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution. Alan Paton
Great Creative World Pride Will Nation South Africa Own Someday Take Envision Making South Contribution Africa Different Which Many Groups Each Peaceful
I'm the cofounder of Keep a Child Alive. We provide medicine for families affected by HIV and AIDS in places like Africa and India. Alicia Keys
Medicine AIDS Alive India Like Affected Provide Families Child HIV Africa Places Keep
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dignity People Will Poverty Strip Easy See Objects Never Clearer Without Reduce Context Been Than American Any Lacking Human Africa Pity Conflicts Which Human Dignity Them Poor Agency Poor People View Inherently Shown Media
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world. Dambisa Moyo
Today World Political Myth Poverty Increased Aid Systemic Has-Been Alleviate Economic Misery Developing Developing World Disaster Most Parts Because Been Ended Done Africa Poorer Notion Humanitarian Millions
I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. Desmond Tutu
Me South Africa System Segregated Roads Reminded Occupied Housing Territory Witnessed Been South Conditions Africa Experienced Apartheid Much Palestinian
The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Future Strength Commitment People Water Our Our People Charge Dream Clean Clean Water Share Taken Because Africa Us Across Belongs
Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see. Floyd Skloot
Travel Long Hong Kong Books See About Through Writes Never He Most Singapore Kong Nonfiction Mixed His Exotic Africa Places Paul Us Productive Novels Lives Career Honduras Set
To show that a comedian on stage in India talking about sanitation or in South Africa talking about HIV and AIDS awareness, if you follow the joke into their lives, you can see that, like, oh, these things aren't just contrived in joke books. This is real life. I think the best comedians have that bravery and courage to say, Oh, this is what it is. Hasan Minhaj
Life Best You Courage Joke South Africa Real Life Stage Awareness Think AIDS Books Say India Follow See About Like Comedian Comedians Talking Real South Contrived HIV Bravery Oh Just Africa Sanitation Show Lives Things
The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive. Hugh Masekela
Savage Religion Hype Lost Own Heritage Television Primitive Advertisement Gotten Heathen Africa African Being Where Psychologically Barbaric Pagan Convinced Media Thing
When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa. Hugh Masekela
Education Music Me Try Old South Africa Years South Left Get Africa Wanted Available
I want to see Nelson walking down the streets of South Africa; I want to see him walking hand-in-hand with Winnie Mandela. Hugh Masekela
South Africa Down Nelson See Him South Hand-In-Hand Walking Mandela Africa Want Streets
I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing. Jim Wallis
Faith Good Political Values King South Africa Action Think President Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Good Thing Put Leaders South Political Leaders Did Africa Want Thing Here Desmond Luther
With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better. John Dramani Mahama
You People Progress Better Sometimes Before Expectation Think Worse High Would Kinds Seeing Know Understand Overnight Very Gets Often Africa Want Happen Who Even Things
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa. John Henrik Clarke
World Light First Civilizations Were Human Africa Human Consciousness Consciousness
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else. Jonathan Dimbleby
Free Rich Every Aid Else Back Market Monumental Rip-Off Through Free Trade Global Global Market Accept Trade Dollar Dollars West Tariff Subsidies Africa Form Mean Poor Grotesque Barriers Two
White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. Joni Mitchell
White Enormous Spirits Vocabulary Africa Rhythm Groove Used Militant Marches Basically
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. Jose Rizal
Great Lie Great American Possession Dream Someday Perhaps Foreign Hand American May Africa Pacific Republic Interests American Republic Who Whose
When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day. Madonna Ciccone
Day Every Day Tears Every Reduced Africa Floods
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. Marcus Garvey
Will King Crowned Look Africa
I've been to North Africa many times. Martin Scorsese
Been Times North North Africa Africa Many
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. Matthew McConaughey
Beautiful Most Beautiful Beautiful Places Most Been Africa Places Ever
We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism. Mira Nair
Class Films Too See About Fact Never Schools Ties Africa In Fact Fancy Elitism
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