Needs Quote by V. S. Naipaul Download Open image “Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.” — V. S. Naipaul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Needs
Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet. — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Gay Africans must speak up and let everyone know they are there, they have always been there, and that they are not going away. — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating. — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
When Europe senses danger, it needs to do something to keep all the Africans at home where they belong. — Joseph Kabila Copy Share Image
I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more… — Bono Copy Share Image
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves… — James Shikwati Copy Share Image
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?"… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
It is irresponsible to set an arbitrary cap on how much therapy a Medicare beneficiary can receive. It ignores the health needs of our… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share
