Africa Quotes · Page 18

Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.

— Gerald Horne

“You're still carrying Africa, but it's eroding at the edges. Great. We're destroying the Dark Continent.”

— J.D. Robb

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

— Susan Rice

Why don't you click your heels three times and go back to Africa.

— Dave Chappelle

“You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.”

— Gerald Freeman

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In Africa, we have a saying,” Alile said. “To get lost is to learn the way.”

— Peter Cawdron

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

— Omar Bongo

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications…

— Eskinder Nega

Not only in Africa but in much of the world, most leaders' pockets are lined by industrial business. And industrial business is…

— Hugh Masekela

The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia…

— St. Lucia

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that…

— John Dramani Mahama

You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a…

— Wole Soyinka

Mahatma Gandhi went from Africa to India, and once India won its freedom, it helped African countries to get their independence.

— Omar al-Bashir

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can…

— Luol Deng

“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're…

— Valerie Owens

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there…

— Chinua Achebe

“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white…

— Doris Lessing

Africa - You can see a sunset and believe you have witnessed the Hand of God. You watch the slope lope of…

— Jodi Picoult

What you and I understand as a government doesn't exist in many African countries. In fact, what we call our governments are…

— George Ayittey

Acting is rare. You can be rehearsing Ibsen with Sir Richard Eyre and suddenly he has to take a call on his…

— Jamie Sives

I don't like a bipolar or a unipolar world. I like a multipolar world but on many occasions people have been surprised…

— Mary Robinson

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and…

— Isaac Hayes

The United States is not longer going to be the world's policemen and our days of determining you're in or you're out…

— Ian Bremmer

I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

— Mo Ibrahim

I must identify myself with Africa. Then I will have an identity.

— Fela Kuti

I'm not a huge fan of South Africa. I always feel a bit worried security-wise.

— Jonathan Agnew

Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?

— Sanjaya Baru

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

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

— Rokia Traore

In Africa, Temple Run is not just a game, its a life style.

— Kalle Amadou

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

— Lauren Beukes

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

— Susan Rice

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

— Ghostface Killah

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

— Ernest Hemingway

Africa is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds

— Elspeth Huxley

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

— Anonymous

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

— Anonymous