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African Quotes by Jared Diamond
- African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.
- Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from…
- The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences…
- In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was…
More African Quotes
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved… — Unknown Author
- It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or… — Unknown Author
- The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you… — Unknown Author