Failure Quote by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.

— Amanda Lindhout

“however crazy this world gets, however accustomed to misery someone may be, we are all the same. No one ever totally gives up hope,…

— Jeffrey Gettleman

“I don't know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone in the…

— Matt Haig

“Don’t make excuses for your behaviour’ and ‘Let them speak’ would’ve made a world of difference.”

— Russell Brand

“Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“You know, it gets frustrating, because you know in your heart where you were and what you said, and then people doubt you. And…

— Dave Cullen

“People had warned me about the culture shock of going to Africa. Nothing prepared me for the culture shock of coming the other way.…

— Richard Dowden

“You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The intrusion of outsiders in the day-to-day lives of Africans was the sort of thing I had always criticized.”

— Paul Theroux

“When I was doing my undergraduate African studies, I learned of a belief among the Yoruba of West Africa.  They believed that when you…

— Debra Samson

“I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there…

— Neil Peart

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by…

— F. W. de Klerk