Best Africa Quotations
1183 Africa quotes by 694 unique authors
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Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But…
— Aliko Dangote
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You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you,…
— John F. Kerry
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
— Langston Hughes
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While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very…
— Adolf Hitler
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Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and…
— Jeroen van der Veer
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The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.
— Paul Boateng
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Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting…
— Bob Brown
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The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon…
— Henry Hamilton Beamish
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I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
— Joe Orton
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery…
— Dambisa Moyo
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I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees,
— Ryan Reynolds
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say,…
— Larry Rivers
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My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those…
— Evangeline Lilly
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put…
— Rachel Weisz
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If you're from Africa, why are you white?
— Amanda Seyfried
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I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant,…
— Dianna Agron
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I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South…
— Dianna Agron
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If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids
— Jimmy Carr
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Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why dont you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot…
— Javier Bardem
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It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing…
— Chris Matthews
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When I was in Africa, this voice came to me and said, Richard, what do you see? I said, I see all types of people.…
— Richard Pryor
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Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to…
— Mia Farrow
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I went to do my first big movie when I was 17. I was in South Africa for three and half months, and I was…
— Robert Pattinson
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I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can…
— River Phoenix
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.
— Tim Minchin
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