Africa Quotes · Page 19

I coached five clubs in South Africa and I was successful with them.

— Bruce Grobbelaar

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

— Doris Lessing

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.

— Dennis Prager

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

— V. S. Naipaul

Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

“Moer and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth in South Africa.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There is MaKhumalo as she sweeps the street of a famous Township somewhere in South Africa.

— Mfumo Bamuza

If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to…

— Tara Fela-Durotoye

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found…

— Isabella Rossellini

“Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term,…

— Ryszard Kapusciński

Filmmaking is a great adventure. I'm as excited as a kid to be given tickets to fly suddenly to England, South Africa,…

— Shekhar Kapur

I could never have gone to Africa another way and had the same experience. It was my job and my joy at…

— Forest Whitaker

[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products…

— Noam Chomsky

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

There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless. We have to prevent these crimes and these awful, awful killings. I…

— Veronika Varekova

“An Abel Muranda without his wife and children would be a wandering bachelor without any dignity. He would sleep in caves and…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“The year the Europeans seized Jomo Kenyatta (1952), Chepusepa and I were sharing our homestead with Arimo, a Teso, who was a…

— Pat Robbins

In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

“There is language going on out there- the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning…

— Boyd Norton

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man…

— Winston Churchill

I am not going to complain about the life I've had so far. In Africa, there are people that live in more…

— Eric Bailly

One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and…

— Chris Albrecht

“Long before Christopher Columbus, the celebrated Chinese navigator Zheng He travelled through the south and westward maritime routes in the Indian Ocean…

— Patrick Mendis

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

— George Ayittey

I've traveled to many countries in Africa, and to me, Benin felt the most hopeful.

— Dana Perino

“We were children in struggle, of the sun in crimson soil.”

— Tsholofelo Lehaha

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.

— Wangari Maathai

The main difference between other mines is health and safety.

— Renatus Nsangano

“No river in sub-Saharan Africa reaches from the open sea to deep into the interior.”

— Thomas Sowell

“The more Africa depends on aid the less opportunities it creates for its people”

— Benjamin Kofi Quansah

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

— Andrew Mitchell

The depiction of Africa has changed in the media in that it is not always poverty, disease, and so on.

— Ory Okolloh

In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky

— Thabo Mbeki

Nowhere outside of Southeast Asia is China's rise as a global power more visible than in Africa.

— Robert C. O'Brien

“Never is a man more proud than when he shuffles paper in front of an illiterate person.”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

I will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of South Africa.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

— Akon

I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.

— Masai Ujiri