Africa Quotes · Page 21

“Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.”

— Nike Thaddeus

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

— Madonna Ciccone

“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

— Desmond Tutu

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

— Mo Ibrahim

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

— Kevin Pietersen

I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.

— Leila Lopes

“A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics... But to learn from…

— Julius Nyerere

“Yes, it’s because it’s one thing to think poor things and another to allow that African politics could have any resemblance at…

— Doris Lessing

Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

“In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him…

— Julius Nyerere

Doesn't matter - from Kyrgyzstan, from Moldova, from Africa, from England, or everywhere. We have to be proud where we from.

— Dmitry Bivol

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't…

— Don Cheadle

It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story…

— Spencer Wells

When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to…

— Peter Singer

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one.…

— Athol Fugard

I wasn't born Austrian; I wasn't born German. My roots are from Africa, and I do not have any reason for not…

— Jessye Norman

“To put it in a nutshell- in Africa, your utmost strength is not enough to exhaust all the possibilities of life; in…

— Werner Junge

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not…

— Uzodinma Iweala

“I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World…

— Richard Calland

It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native…

— L. Ron Hubbard

If we do not do something to prevent it, Africa's animals, and the places in which they live, will be lost to…

— Nelson Mandela

“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only…

— John McWhorter

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

— Djimon Hounsou

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

— Oliver Tambo

“I love you so much, Sahra. You will do wonderful things. Have courage and believe in yourself.”

— Abeba Habtu

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

— Jeffrey Sachs

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

— Kwame Nkrumah

I do sometimes like cheesy music like 'Africa' by Toto; naff songs and music.

— Konnie Huq

“No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process”

— Fela Durotoye

WAIT TILL THEY SEE THESE ARMS IN AFRICA. THEY LOOK BIG ENOUGH TO ME

— Lou Ferrigno

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.

— Will Smith

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

— Elspeth Huxley

Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region.

— Hailemariam Desalegn

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

— Jocelyn Wildenstein

I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.

— Taylor Kitsch

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

— Anonymous