Africa Quotes
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Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle.
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
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Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
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For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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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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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.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Africa is the future.
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Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?
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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 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 all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe must bring into being a new force in Malawi. We must not allow South Africa to set the course in Malawi... The victory is being planned... It demands cold-bloodedness.
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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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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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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 A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South 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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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
