Best Africa Wisdom
1183 Africa quotes by 694 unique authors
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I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers…
— Lynn Nottage
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And I know, that I know, that I know, we are about to see the greatest manifestations of God's presence ever! A prophetess named Ruth…
— Benny Hinn
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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women,…
— Melinda Gates
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But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to…
— Emma Thompson
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Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them
— Miriam Makeba
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I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa and the people…
— Miriam Makeba
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In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it…
— Miriam Makeba
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Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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However, the daily life of the slaves in the South, as observed by many travelers, was obscured for all time by the relentless promotion of…
— Eustace Mullins
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America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew…
— Pat Buchanan
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The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not…
— Robert Sobukwe
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South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
— Thabo Mbeki
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In Africa you have space...there a profound sense of space here, space and sky
— Thabo Mbeki
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Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa
— Thomas Sankara
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Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules.…
— Thomas Sankara
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It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link…
— Joe Slovo
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Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all…
— Ahmet Davutoglu
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People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it…
— David Livingstone
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of…
— Walter Mosley
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They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!
— Herman Cain
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The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.
— Unknown Author
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There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
— Lawrence Summers
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The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.
— Rich Mullins
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