Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Abani

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

Patrice Motsepe

Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.

Mark McKinnon

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American.

Pete Rose

Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board.

Omar Bongo

It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

Colin Cooper

We can't give South African teams that much ball.

We have to understand that all of Africa is infected.

The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.

Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

Marcus Samuelsson

There has long been a debate in the aid community and in Africa about how to most effectively help situations of poverty in developing nations and underprivileged communities.

Marcus Samuelsson

I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.

Marcus Samuelsson

What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.

Ray Comfort

Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.

Ryan Coogler

Coming up in the Bay Area and being African American in a city that has a history of complex issues of violent crime, interaction with the police is always intense. That's something you have to learn. My mom taught me at a young age that if ever a cop stops you, you put your hands up and freeze - don't move.

Randall Kennedy

Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'

Randall Kennedy

The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least in mixed company, are features of African American life that predate affirmative action and arise outside of its presence.

Johnny Damon

We were shown all the scenarios after the game and we were kind of in awe. A lot of guys thought it was runs scored, so we thought maybe we'd have to go out and try and beat South Africa by a lot of runs. But it's runs allowed, and the South Africa score does not count. That's strange, too.

We know today if you go to western and central Africa that humans and chimps live in similar and neighboring environments. This is the first evidence in the fossil record that they coexisted in the same place in the past.

We haven't conquered the moon. It's a planet the size of Africa and we've been to six spots the size of a large backyard or farm or ranch. That's not exploring. That's touching.

Those guys are legends in South African sport and it is fantastic for me to have done something that they have done.

Bill Bradley

You have said that I am going to destroy Medicaid without saying what I plan to replace it with. (Your assertions) that my plan would hurt African Americans and Latinos have offended me,

Jonathan Moyo

You know, you find in him the lasting connection between the struggle which the African fought to liberate themselves and the African way into the future, especially now as they are struggling for economic emancipation.

Bill Clinton

We have to show the benefits of democracy and globalization to ordinary citizens. If we don't put a human face on the global economy and we don't put a competence factor into local democracy, then both will eventually be rejected by ordinary people in Africa and throughout the world.

Lewis Tappan

We do not believe that any went away with the same views, and the same feelings in relation to any one in whose veins courses African blood.

While a lot of African Americans and Latinos may have negative perceptions about the military, they can still identify with the strength of the soldier.

Without an African internal market, it is an illusion to believe that we can strive towards overseas markets.

Jessica Brown Findlay

We filmed 'Labyrinth' in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It's very different from 'Downton' because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair - it's the other extreme of the look!

We have some minor leaguers who are pretty good players. I didn't really know that much about how good baseball in South Africa was before this.

We must promote patriotism, but we can never again allow South African children to be forced to submit to the degrading dogma of racial nationalism.

Kevin Nolan

We've got some of our players away at the African Nations Cup and we've got to hope that they get knocked out early so that we can get them back. We want to keep this club going forward. There's no point, after all our hard work, in taking a step back.

Samantha Power

Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.