Ali Mazrui Quotes
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
Quotes to Explore
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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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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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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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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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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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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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I love the concept of community energy.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
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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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I love Africa.
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In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
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I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
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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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Theatricality is a concept. It's not a specific language.
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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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'Shotgun's one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's about a couple I met at Waffle House, an all night diner I used to hang at before I could go to bars.
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The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.
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You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the infinite.
