Africans Quotes: top 73 famous quotes about Africans

Africans Quotes & Sayings

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I've changed my mind, even against Omar al-Bashir. Whether he has to be charged or not, the Sudanese shall decide or the Africans. — Yoweri Museveni

Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny. — George Ayittey

We may differ in the language we speak, yet we all remain children of the land. — John Okechukwu Munonye

I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America. — Assata Shakur

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans. — Tony Snow

I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence. — Nelson Mandela

Africa for the Africans ... at home and abroad! — Marcus Garvey

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are, — Hugh Masekela

Africans didn't want saving, thank you very much, least of all not by me. — Jacqueline Novogratz

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives. — Akon

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans. — Leila Aboulela

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans. — Bob Marley

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. — Bob Geldof

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful. — Jacob Zuma

Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact. — Patrick Bergin

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. — Desmond Tutu

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live. — Abdoulaye Wade

The Africans wouldn't consider it a real visit unless they ate. — LeAnne Hardy

Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people. — Kenneth Kaunda

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state. — Noam Chomsky

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. — Robert Mugabe

What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states. — F. W. De Klerk

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand. — Helen Clark

Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans. — Mo Ibrahim

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people. — Chika Anadu

Like most blacks in Philadelphia, Eliza was free. She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans. — Laurie Halse Anderson

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand. — V.S. Naipaul

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape. — Idris Elba

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right. — Nadine Gordimer

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me. — Olusegun Obasanjo

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans. — Haile Selassie

Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other. — Runoko Rashidi

We Africans are able to build companies that can operate in the global environment. — Strive Masiyiwa

Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't. — Paul Theroux

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. — Clifford Geertz

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims. — Fatou Bensouda

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash

Africans believed that the woman's bare breast represented God, the circle of life and the moral cleanliness of human beings. — Kola Boof

Lenders make their choices with clear preferences: "Africans first, women first, and agriculture first" (Flannery, — Anke Schwittay

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. — Nicholas D. Kristof

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. — Whoopi Goldberg

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. — Charles De Secondat

Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X

We are all Africans under the skin. — Spencer Wells

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting. — Nelson Mandela

Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries. — Bertrand Russell

We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans. — Craig Venter

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow. — Nas

it is a fact that eleven million Africans were forcibly carried abroad, more than nine million of them to the Americas. — Bernard Bailyn

Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans. — Nelson Mandela

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. — James Shikwati

Africans only perceive themselves as victims. — James Shikwati

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints. — PLO Lumumba

From a genomic perspective, we are all Africans. — Svante Paabo

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape — Maya Angelou

Nature is the guardian of Africa. While the sun lights the African sky in day time, the moon begs the world to help her lighting Africa in the night — Munia Khan

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people. — Patrice Motsepe

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day. — Mo Ibrahim

Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party. — Jeremy Cronin

Louise Roth Fischer, for caring about the women in Klong Prem Prison and for supporting all South Africans incarcerated abroad. — Hazel Friedman

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. — Samuel George Morton

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs. — M.I.A.

Race is a biased concept; we are in fact all Africans. — Ben Tolosa

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. — Henry Louis Gates

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent. — Thabo Mbeki

I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It's right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting. — Geronimo Pratt

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do. — Carter G. Woodson