I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world…

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to…

— Anonymous

The role that Cuba played and the lives of those 2,077 Cubans, whose mothers and families mourn for having lost their children in Africa,…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

As Miss Angola, I've already done a lot to help my people.

— Leila Lopes

There was always news coming back to the quarter about someone who had been killed or sent to prison for killing someone else: Snowball,…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission.

— Joao Lourenco

The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread…

— Miriam Makeba

“To understand our world, we must use a revolving globe and look at the earth from various vantage points. If we do so, we…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“In the Portuguese colony of Angola, during the closing decades of the nineteenth century, no contract laborer who went to the offshore island of…

— Thomas Sowell

When the nuclear weapons were sent to the racist South African government, where a few million white people subjugated more than 13 million black…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist…

— Elliott Abrams

Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white…

— Noam Chomsky

The United States is a very important country to us in the international context. But on other hand, Angola is also important to the…

— Joao Lourenco

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip…

— Mia Farrow