"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent……" — Maya Angelou
"If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape"
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou has 760 quotes on this site.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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More Africans Quotes
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
— Bono
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the…
— Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most…
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a…
— Unknown Author
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By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time…
— Brad Pitt
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for…
— Thomas Sowell
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American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity…
— James Madison
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