Africa Quotes
1183 quotes by 723 authors
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to…
— Bono
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You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It…
— Bono
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa,…
— Bono
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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing…
— Bono
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Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.
— Bono
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution,…
— Bono
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My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among…
— Edward de Bono
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Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the…
— Norman Borlaug
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Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work…
— Richard Branson
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