Africa Quotes · Page 14

It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more.

— Helen Fielding

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

— Miriam Makeba

When I'm in South Africa, I make it a point to take my dogs out to the beach.

— Dale Steyn

Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

— Shirley Temple

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

— Edward Ball

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

— Samuel Eto'o

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

— Trevor Huddleston

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

— Claudia Winkleman

I delighted in the music of Africa, the earliest of the slave plantation songs, the transformation into Christianity and all that Christianity…

— Harry Belafonte

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great…

— Steven Biko

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Because I grew up in Africa, I always see people and try to understand characters as what kind of animal they'd be.

— Richard E. Grant

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of…

— L. Ron Hubbard

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during…

— Dinaw Mengestu

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power…

— Stephen Lewis

There are a lot of BeBe Zahara Benets in Africa. It's important that our continent can move forward, and respect diversity.

— BeBe Zahara Benet

“Dakar with a population of over a million people is the capital and largest city of Senegal. Counting the surrounding area the…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she…

— Henry Selick

If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States,…

— Dambisa Moyo

“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had…

— Chloe Thurlow

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think South Africa would be in a lot worse position had you not had visionaries like the Mandelas or the Oliver…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I went to South Africa - Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg - and those were definitely the "I've arrived" shows. Outside of the…

— Kendrick Lamar

“If you're the only one that can see the genius in you, It's best you revisit the drawing board.”

— Nike Thaddeus

“There is no other continent in the world where time is wasted like it is wasted in Africa.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We are not just a farming area, Africa has great potential and we are a developing continent.

— Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.

— Torrey DeVitto

We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?

— Steve Lukather

It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.

— Kimbal Musk

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

— David Oyelowo

You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another.

— Mo Ibrahim

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

— Mo Ibrahim

Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that.

— Mo Ibrahim

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

— Claire Denis

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.

— Wilbur Smith

The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.

— Kwame Nkrumah

I wanted to prove that a young boy coming from Africa was able to succeed and achieve a lot.

— Samuel Eto'o

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous