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Africa Quotes by John Henrik Clarke
- The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans…
- There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
- Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th…
- It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best…
- Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of…
- The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
More Africa Quotes
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there. — Martha Beck
- Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy… — Mary McLeod Bethune
- In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. — Steven Biko
- Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen… — Art Blakey
- Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all… — Bono