Africa Quotes - page 38

I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older. (Dave Matthews)
South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself. View quote
Dave Matthews
It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. View quote
Dave Matthews
I was there during the first elections in South Africa. I watched them take down the apartheid flag and raise the new flag. View quote
Al Sharpton
The common root, of course, comes out of Africa. That's the pulse. The African pulse. It's all the way back from . . . the old slave chants and up through the blues, the jazz, and up through rock. And it's all got the African pulse. View quote
Duke Ellington
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso. View quote
Duke Ellington
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town. View quote
Doris Lessing
I've been to North Africa many times. View quote
Martin Scorsese
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous. View quote
Haile Selassie
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four. View quote
Edward de Bono
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film. (Wole Soyinka)
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative. View quote
Wole Soyinka
In tropical Africa, on the other hand, Hobson talked of 'lower races' who could only progress under western leadership. View quote
Peter Cain
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16. View quote
Hugo Weaving
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. View quote
Desmond Tutu
It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid. View quote
Desmond Tutu
We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land. View quote
Desmond Tutu
[T]here is always the possibility of change. If it happened in South Africa, why can't it happen anywhere? View quote
Desmond Tutu
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death. View quote
J. M. Coetzee
There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences. View quote
Muhammad Yunus
Well, what if I'm wrong, I mean - anybody could be wrong. We could all be wrong about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the pink unicorn and the flying teapot. You happen to have been brought up, I would presume, in a Christian faith. You know what it's like to not believe in a particular faith because you're not a Muslim. You're not a Hindu. Why aren't you a Hindu? Because you happen to have been brought up in America, not in India. If you had been brought up in India, you'd be a Hindu. If you had been brought up in Denmark in the time of the Vikings, you'd be believing in Wotan and Thor. If you were brought up in classical Greece, you'd be believing in Zeus. If you were brought up in central Africa, you'd be believing in the great Juju up the mountain. There's no particular reason to pick on the Judeo-Christian god, in which by the sheerest accident you happen to have been brought up and ask me the question, "What if I'm wrong?" (Richard Dawkins)
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. View quote
V. S. Naipaul
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture. View quote
James Fenton
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. View quote
Will Rogers
I cannot separate problems happening in South Africa with problems here. I don't think you can put too much emphasis on something as brutal and overt as South Africa. View quote
Yolanda King