Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certainly be a best practice for any other country on the continent or anywhere else in the world.

Ridley Scott

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.

Just try to imagine African countries that have limited resources, but many of the world's top players. It could have disastrous results for them.

I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, even in the South.

I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.

I think it could happen at the African Cup of Nations - you never know!

Jim Sinclair

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

Basically, the evidence shows you have to be a superstar to get into the door, if you are African American. If you are white, you can be good, you can be average, you can be mediocre, and you can get in. Mediocrity is OK for the white candidates, but you have to be a superstar for the black candidates.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.

Angelique Kidjo

I'm an African bringing my culture to the Western world. But I use technology and rhythm and blues and jazz and rock. I make it easier for you by combining your tools with mine. But then some will say the music is not pure.

Henning Mankell

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.

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.

I think the president is going to have to nominate a woman or Hispanic or an African American, and that probably the situation (with Hurricane Katrina) is such that an elevation makes good sense now.

I think that if I took this into a court of law and put this (theory) forward, then we have conclusively and beyond a reasonable doubt proved that the African crowned eagle was the killer.

Javier Solana

It is for the leaders who are concerned to take this decision. We hope that the African Union will decide to move to a U.N. mission.

I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

John Prendergast

Having a strong African leader, with the confidence of regional governments, who's backed by high-level envoys from countries that matter

Neil MacGregor

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Her mission in the diplomatic staff of the South African government was to meet people from the U.S. State Department and get involved in classified pillow talk.

Here was the United States just emerging from its fight for independence when the young country finds itself blocked from free trade by North African countries in the Atlantic Ocean,

Whoopi Goldberg

Good evening, loyal subjects. I am the African queen. Some of you may know me as the virgin queen, but I can't imagine who.

Historically, the presence of African Americans in big-top performances is very rare. That's what Cedric of the UniverSoul Circus is working against -- that history,

His work is a fine example of contemporary West African art depicting traditional ways of life.

J. Taylor

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,

For three-fourths of the show, we are moving -- getting into our South African groove.

If it were to become rooted in the African countryside, the consequences for a continent already devastated by hunger and poverty could be truly catastrophic.

Kenneth Kaunda

There are (numerous) reasons why African leaders need to be more strategic in cultivating a relationship with the diaspora.

Peter Gabriel

When they had (Nelson) Mandela shows in London the bill was really mixed and I don't think we lost any viewers as a result. African artists are strong, charismatic and compelling, and I think they hold people's attention.

He was interested in the ritualistic aspect of African art. African art, like Picasso's art, is not about describing things, but about conveying the idea of things and people. The influence of African art on Picasso can be seen in the works he produced from 1907-9.

If this commission can come up with a realistic African solution for him to be tried in Africa, then we support it.

If the African Union is to have a strong voice it has to foster constructive criticism, not bury it.

He was an African boy who was all-American.