Quotes about african
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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 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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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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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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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
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections, Alexander McQueen
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You can't look forward and backward... Coleman Young
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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.
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I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, even in the South.
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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.
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I think it could happen at the African Cup of Nations - you never know!
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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. Jim Sinclair
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He changed the way African Americans are viewed in this country Maxine Waters
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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.
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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.
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He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributing to the uplift of African Americans and contributing to a changing America.
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Having a strong African leader, with the confidence of regional governments, who's backed by high-level envoys from countries that matter John Prendergast
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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. Neil MacGregor
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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.