African Quote by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Women are starting something like twice as many companies as men, but the money is primarily going to companies started by men.

— Anita Borg

Ensuring that minority businesses across the Greater Houston area have access to the tools they need to succeed is of paramount importance to me.

— Al N. Green

In Ghana, most of the women I know do not identify as sexy, and the reason may be cultural. With imported beauty standards from…

— Philomena Kwao

When women are starting out in their careers, they tend to be confident and look to aspire to leadership role and really want those…

— Lynne Doughtie

I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.

— Jennifer Saunders

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The…

— Anne Lamott

In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

— Hanna Rosin

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

— Princess Nokia

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

— Philip Emeagwali

I feel like I have a very typical west African physique, and that is part of my blackness!

— Wunmi Mosaku

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of…

— John McWhorter

The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the…

— Ben Aaronovitch

My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.

— Estelle

“Ebola has spread to five West African countries and infected 5,864 people, of which 2,811 have died, according to the World Health Organization’s Sept. 22 report.”

— Anonymous

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

— Taiye Selasi