“(On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then the Chinese must be Africa's best friend.… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
“Young people, women especially, often worry about the safety of volunteering abroad. There are, of course, legitimate concerns about disease and violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After I made it to the NBA, I said that I didn't want to be the last player from Africa. After my… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
What's so great is that we're making money for AIDS in Africa. There's a lot of love and spontaneity, we're doing something… — Gavin Friday Copy Share Image
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric,… — Mark Gevisser Copy Share Image
The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
My good friend Yao Ming was the first big player in the NBA to come from China. He gave himself to the… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting… — Lisa Morton Copy Share Image
I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the… — Estelle Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Africa is a very special place, the people are very special there. There is a lot of love, and a lot warmth… — Justin Nozuka Copy Share Image
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism.… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
“The coffin was handmade from the wood of a single Eucalyptus tree. There were no handles, it rested on the shoulders of… — Nick Hahn Copy Share Image
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they… — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
The U.K. and the U.S. could not have been built today without Africa's aid. It is all the resources that were taken… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
“equatorial Africa? Could it have arrived there in one soaring leap, leaving no traces in between? From southwestern Sudan to Manila is… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations—they must find other plausible… — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ...When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“I still worry about Africa, we are slaves to western and Eastern Brands and we do not cherish and love our own.… — Tare Munzara Copy Share Image
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Africa's youth are probably one of its greatest resources. There's a tendency to see youth, for example as a problem. But for… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's… — William Schaffner Copy Share Image
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“The two of us lurching on an unlikely journey up a lonely road in the dark, thick beginning of a Mozambique night.… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to… — Emi Iyalla Copy Share Image
Right. So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image