African Quotes

934 quotes by 644 authors

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
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury… — David Attenborough
Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are… — Joyce Banda
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs. — Dave Barry
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring. — Glenn Beck
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. — Larry Bird
From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration… — Mary J. Blige
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
I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation… — Bono
It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio… — Bono
The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public… — Bono
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by… — Geraldine Brooks
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing… — Sandra Bullock
We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people -… — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label… — Herman Cain
African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply… — Herman Cain
This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me,… — Herman Cain
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over… — Tony Campolo
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to… — Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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