Africa Quotes - page 30

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. (K'naan)
Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa. View quote
Kandyse McClure
The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name. View quote
Kandyse McClure
I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind. View quote
Kevin Pietersen
I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia. View quote
Karolina Kurkova
When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move. View quote
Kellan Lutz
I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me! View quote
Kellan Lutz
Since entering the new century, China and Africa have seized the historic opportunities presented by the deepening of globalization, worked together and helped each other to achieve a win-win outcome. View quote
Li Keqiang
South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing. View quote
Lisa Morton
The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it. View quote
Liya Kebede
There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.' (Liya Kebede)
Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa. View quote
Liya Kebede
When a woman has her first child in places like Africa, they're really young. They can be 12, 13,14, so their frames are really small, and they're usually malnourished. View quote
Liya Kebede
Even though I support the blue side of Manchester's football heritage, I don't really mind that wherever I go in the world it's not Manchester City that starts the conversation. 'Ah, yes, Manchester United,' is the response when I say where I come from. It's commonplace everywhere - in Europe, Africa, Asia and even the U.S. View quote
Lucy Powell
The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none. View quote
Larry Kramer
From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families. View quote
Mariella Frostrup
Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day. View quote
Mario Balotelli
I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television. View quote
Alice Krige
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade. View quote
Andrew Mwenda
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan - but not England. View quote
Brian Wildsmith
Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa. (Corneille Ewango)
I started to work on a feature-length script about pirates in Somalia, but I knew that there was something I was missing, which was that I didn't know what day-to-day life looked like and felt like in East Africa. So I decided I had to go. View quote
Cutter Hodierne
The future of Africa is in innovative engineering. View quote
Erik Hersman
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. View quote
Edward Ball
Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work. View quote
Howard Graham Buffett