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 ~
• 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 ~