Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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Africa has no future.
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Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.
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The Bee Gees no longer exist.
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If we didn't get the record, we didn't exist.
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There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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I roll with bodyguards when I go back home to South Africa.
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
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When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.
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Death does not exist.
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I love Africa.
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As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
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I was going to fight for what I wanted first, and that was being in L.A. and being a Laker. L.A. was the first place that came to my mind. That's where my heart was at.
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I think my morals are perfectly... tight!
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.
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When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.
