Quotes about africa
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No other African state was launched with so much promise for the future,
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New Orleans was a haven for refugees, especially from Haiti. It has a strong West African identity, which can still be heard in the street drumming on Mardi Gras.
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From time to time, there are people in the film industry who appear on the horizon with a unique vision. South African director Neill Blomkamp is one of those rare people. Ridley Scott
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If, as we think, migratory birds will be one of the ways by which avian influenza is spreading around the world, we can expect ... the problem in the Near East, in East and West Africa and naturally in North America and South America, Jacques Diouf
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If Africa could establish a clothing export industry, that would fight poverty far more effectively than any foreign aid program. Nicholas D. Kristof
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If America does not work in Liberia, I don't think any African country is going to take her seriously about all of the programs they're talking about, J. Taylor
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From the consumer point of view, one of the main constraints to economic growth in Africa is the lack of credit cards. If the established credit card companies do not fill this market gap, it is likely that mobile phone operators will.
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I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European. Henning Mankell
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I have a lot of respect for him, he is doing a good job with the South Africa team. We just had a bit of a fall-out last winter. These things happen. Michael Vaughan
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I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.
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I felt it was a privilege to be working with that population of kids, African Americans from the inner city. I got really attached to all of those kids and I'm still in touch with some of them. Now I see firsthand some of the disadvantages they face. It's very real. They need extra support. The forces these kids are up against are too much for them.
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If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'
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I first saw Rudolph in South Africa and I think he made a double ton against us in a tour match. He's always had that potential. He is a pretty decent player. He showed yesterday that he can bat for along time and really knuckle down and save a test match. Glenn McGrath
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I'd move to Los Angeles,' he once said, 'if Australia and New Zealand were swallowed by a huge tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in Europe and if Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.' Heat magazine, 4-12 May 2000. Russell Crowe
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I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution. Don Cheadle
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I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs. Meg Rosoff
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I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge. Joyce Banda
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I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets. Dambisa Moyo
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I am hoping I can turn my form around as it is a lifelong ambition of mine to represent Europe in the Ryder Cup. The first European Tour event I will play in is the South African Open, but in the meantime I will be trying to improve my world ranking as that's another way of qualifying. Justin Rose
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I am interested in seeing how the South African audience responds to seeing themselves in a show like this.
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
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We should provide incentives to poor African farmers to report immediately if they suspect an outbreak among poultry, and discourage them from rushing to sell birds on the market.
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Africa is not fulfilling people's hopes and aspirations. African leaders have not had an agenda that included governing Africa so that people would find their careers, their life, dreams and visions fulfilled here.
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In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away. Uzo Aduba
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Every day, families in Africa go without food and water, never knowing when their next meal might be; but we can change that if we all work together. In order to make a difference, every purchase of my new energy shot, Street King, will provide a meal for a child in need. Curtis Jackson
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African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us. Cynthia McKinney
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But at the same time you can't... Angela Davis
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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The cause of freedom is not the... Anna Julia Cooper
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock. Jack Bruce
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others. Hans Rosling
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American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated. Khaled Hosseini