Best African Thoughts

934 African quotes by 620 unique authors

You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire… — Unknown Author
International correspondents with their long dictaphones, and dirty jeans, and five hundred words before whiskey, are slouched over the red velvet chairs, in the VIP… — Binyavanga Wainaina
I was going to save the world, and I thought I would start with the African continent. — Jacqueline Novogratz
People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the cowboys in fiction… — Philip Roberts
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people… — Ibrahim Babangida
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today,… — Alexis Herman
We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria. — William J. Clinton
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. — Paul Robeson
I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike. — Anne Northup
WikiLeaks will not comply with legally abusive requests from Scientology any more than WikiLeaks has complied with similar demands from Swiss banks, Russian offshore stem-cell… — Julian Assange
There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal.… — Joe Biden
As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many… — Nelson Mandela
I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school… — Retief Goosen
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the negative… — Malcolm Gladwell
Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be… — Kwame Nkrumah
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal. Now,… — Venus Williams
It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we… — Kwame Nkrumah
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world are Africans and… — Kwame Nkrumah
The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It… — Kwame Nkrumah
I believe strongly and sincerely that with the deep-rooted wisdom and dignity, the innate respect for human lives, the intense humanity that is our heritage,… — Kwame Nkrumah
Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality. — Kwame Nkrumah
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent — Kwame Nkrumah
We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world! — Kwame Nkrumah
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed… — H. Rap Brown
The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face. — Linford Christie

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