African Quotes · Page 6

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

— Tony Snow

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

— Lance Reddick

If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

— Mo Ibrahim

“African time is a major cancer eating up our economy today”

— Sunday Adelaja

We haven't seen any African country talk about recession.

— Oscar N. Onyema

The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true.

— John Henrik Clarke

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

— Hugh Masekela

“Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go…

— Nicky Oppenheimer

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer…

— Yvonne Orji

'Yo I'm from Africa' Boy you're just a faker. Name one city: 'Uhh, Jamaica!' Wrong! And I think that's a shame, An…

— King Sun

“Only the poorest of African people did not wear an upper garment, but this small number became representative in the European mind.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused…

— Laura Mvula

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

— Robert Griffin III

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans…

— Saul Williams

'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and…

— Dinaw Mengestu

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them…

— Youssou N'Dour

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners…

— Nelson Mandela

“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my…

— Dinaw Mengestu

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the…

— Ron Eglash

Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the…

— George Ayittey

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

— Ruby Bridges

Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

— P. W. Botha

“Never complete. Never whole. White skin and an African soul.”

— Michelle Frost

“The most powerful ancestral or generational curse we face is our unhealed trauma.”

— Abiola Abrams

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz

Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.

— Mo Ibrahim

An African without church is like a day without sunshine.

— Anonymous

The thing is: Yes, I'm white and yes, I love African music, and I can't do anything about it.

— Jain

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

— Chadwick Boseman

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

— Larry Bird

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

— Malachi Kirby

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

— Fela Kuti

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter

Am a black African,and am proud of my natural complexion..

— Dennis Lancelot

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

— Leymah Gbowee

“It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so.”

— Felix Okoye