Africa's Quotes
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I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.
— Dave Chappelle
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
— Nadine Gordimer
Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
— Dennis Prager
They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
— Wilbur Smith
South Africa's subprime crisis OP-ED
— Anonymous
S'tjwetla is a black man's striptease.
— Toba Beta
Every time I go to Africa, I see the future. I see what the Western world is going to become. It's a very futuristic place.
— Damon Albarn
I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.
— Louis Oosthuizen
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.
— Liya Kebede
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.
— James Vanderbilt
I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
— Jann Klose
The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.
— Hugh Masekela
The Sahara is Africa's great divide.
— Richard Engel
George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.
— Hillary Clinton
Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.
— Lauren Beukes
The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners
— Saad-Eddine El Othmani
Africa is God's country, and He can have it.
— Groucho Marx
I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.
— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.
— Christoffel Wiese
What is South Africa's sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?
— Jeremy Riddle
I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back; it's a long journey but it leads to freedom.
— Corinne Hofmann
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.
— Binyavanga Wainaina
Africa is underpopulated. We have 20% of the world's landmass and 13% of its population.
— Mo Ibrahim
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
Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.
— Chris Tucker
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
— Watkin Tudor Jones
It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do.
— Mo Ibrahim
One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.
— Scarlett Pomers
It's a lot like the Wild West out here... just with tea shops instead of saloons. Wild West Sahara, that is.
— T.K. Naliaka
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
— George Ayittey
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
— Liya Kebede
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.
— Claire Denis
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power.
— Ethan Zuckerman
He spoke about Africa in an unusual way. He spoke of Africa as though Africa was a sick child and he was the parent.
— V.S. Naipaul
People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
— Kenneth Kaunda
In many ways Africa subsidised America and Europe's development.
— Jesse Jackson
Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent.
— Sylvia Poggioli
There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless.
— Veronika Varekova
If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.
— Marcus Garvey
Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.
— Nicholas Kristof
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
— Angelique Kidjo
Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.
— Richard Attias
A stable and prosperous DRC is the victory of the World. Congo is a deciding factor for Africa's development whether we like it or not.
— Ahmed Padia Binkatabana
Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself.
— Timothy Snyder
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.
— Amadou Hampate Ba
Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
— George Ayittey
Africa's not a color - it's a place.
— Trevor Noah
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
— John Henrik Clarke
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
— Chinua Achebe
Huh. What a dope! Wait till Mom hears about this. He's so in trouble now. You know how crazy she gets about malaria.
— T.K. Naliaka
Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.
— Oprah Winfrey
I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride,
— Fatou Bensouda
"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
— Michael Jackson
We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
— Marcus Garvey
I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
— Candice Swanepoel
Jan van Riebeeck's arrival in Cape Town was the beginning of all South Africa's problems.
— Jacob Zuma
You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges.Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent. — J.D. Robb
When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
— George Ayittey
Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.
— Hasso Plattner
South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
— Susan Rice
People wonder why I love Africa so much. I say this is where I was born and raised. My roots are in Africa; that's were I developed.
— Dikembe Mutombo
I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.
— Britney Spears
Africa has no future.
— V.S. Naipaul
When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.
— Henry Rollins
The funnel of my family's salvation must continue narrowing towards the gallows. That journey cannot begin at the parted tips of another woman's toes
— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.
— Amar'e Stoudemire
