Quotes About Africa

I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.

The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive.

Seventy-five thousand people a day become Christians, two-thirds of whom live in Africa.

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism

All modern humans are related to what scientists call Mitochondrial Eve. This refers to our common matrilineal ancestor. She lived approximately 200,000 years ago and depending on how you estimate the length of a generation, we are only 5,000 to 10,000 generations from one another. To put it another way, each of us is a cousin of one another at most 10,000 times removed. And yes, Mitochondrial Eve lived in Africa, so, in a very real way, we are all Africans.

ashes of the dead slaves fleeing on the wind, back toward Africa.

It flattened and began to drift out over the sea, the ashes of the dead slaves fleeing on the wind, back toward Africa.

There are so many kids in Africa who adore these athletes in the NBA and see themselves in them, even though we're so far removed.

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

Growing up in Africa, I always dreamt big.

I didn't do very well when I was at school, so my dad gave me the opportunity to travel in Africa. I drove from London to Nairobi. It was incredible.

While WHO has never had a director from Africa, no one should elect me because I am from Africa.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

He said he felt like the gut heart and lungs of Africa's interior. He said he felt like the Kongo: "Land of the Panther." He said he felt like "deserting his master," as the Kongo is "prone to do." He said he felt he could dance on a dime.

Foreign Cash is not the answers to our problems, my friend. Africa needs the hearts and minds of its sons and daughters to nurture it. You were our pride, Mukoma Bryon. When you did not return, a whole village lost its investment. Africa is all that we have. If we do not build it, no one else will.

the factory-owners and traders, grew stronger as a result of the new trade frontiers in America, Africa and the Far East.

Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible.