Africa Quotes - page 6

People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all. (Didier Drogba)
My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa. View quote
Katherine Dunham
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black. View quote
Larry Rivers
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa. View quote
Akon
We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity. View quote
Abdoulaye Wade
People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. View quote
Abdullah Ibrahim
The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads. View quote
Abdullah Ibrahim
What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. View quote
Athol Fugard
I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual. View quote
Adhir Kalyan
With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path. (Ahmed Ben Bella)
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. View quote
Binyavanga Wainaina
I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. View quote
Binyavanga Wainaina
There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa. View quote
Barbara Amiel
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. View quote
Bram Fischer
I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface. View quote
Bela Fleck
In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa. View quote
Claudio Hummes
I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa. View quote
Claudio Reyna
I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa. View quote
Candice Swanepoel
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe. View quote
Creed Bratton
There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. (Carol Alt)
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa. View quote
Caterina Murino
For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring. View quote
David Harewood
The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class. View quote
David Miliband
Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives. View quote
Damian Marley