AFRICA QUOTES

• For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
  ~ Maya Angelou ~
• Pay a visit to "AFRICA"
  ~ Johnny Claps ~
• African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
  ~ Mos Def ~
• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
  ~ Haile Gebrselassie ~
• I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
  ~ Johnny Vegas ~
• I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
  ~ Johnny Vegas ~
• Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.
  ~ Dick Gregory ~
• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.
  ~ Andrew Shue ~
• The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.
  ~ David Miliband ~
• Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.
  ~ Gerry Adams ~
• When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.
  ~ Paul Theroux ~
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
  ~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
• When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.
  ~ Anna Deavere Smith ~
• To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
  ~ Anna Deavere Smith ~
• We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
  ~ Roger Ebert ~
• We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
  ~ Roger Ebert ~
• That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
  ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
• There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.
  ~ Channing Tatum ~
• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.
  ~ Bono ~
• Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
  ~ Bono ~
• So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.
  ~ Bono ~
• You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
  ~ Bono ~
• Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
  ~ Richard Branson ~
• Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
  ~ Gabrielle Union ~
• I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
  ~ Alicia Keys ~
• I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
  ~ Alicia Keys ~
• Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
  ~ Marcus Garvey ~
• Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!
  ~ Marcus Garvey ~
• I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
  ~ Marcus Garvey ~
• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
  ~ Denis Diderot ~
• People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
  ~ David Attenborough ~
• Here is Africa where they want you to give birth to children but they don't want you to talk about sex education.
  ~ Oyinda Oladeinde ~
• I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
  ~ Tim Robbins ~
• Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
  ~ Kofi Annan ~
• I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.
  ~ Charlize Theron ~
• I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.
  ~ Annie Lennox ~
• Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.
  ~ Annie Lennox ~
• The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
  ~ Clive Owen ~
• The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.
  ~ Clive Owen ~
• I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.
  ~ Glenn Beck ~
• Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.
  ~ William Hague ~
• In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
  ~ Noam Chomsky ~
• In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
  ~ Noam Chomsky ~
• When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
  ~ Desmond Tutu ~
• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
  ~ Desmond Tutu ~
• In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
  ~ Desmond Tutu ~
• In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
  ~ Desmond Tutu ~
• I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
  ~ Desmond Tutu ~
• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
  ~ Henry Louis Gates ~
• The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
  ~ Dave Barry ~
• The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
  ~ Dave Barry ~
• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
  ~ Barack Obama ~
• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
  ~ Barack Obama ~
• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
  ~ Barack Obama ~
• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
  ~ Barack Obama ~
• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• Our African leaders are dirty spoiled underwear of the western imperialistic elite.
  ~ Blessing Tonderai Masenga ~