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Africa Quotes

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people’s minds, in people’s heads Picture Quote #1

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don’t know, though Picture Quote #1

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity Picture Quote #1

There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people Picture Quote #1

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market Picture Quote #1

I’m not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa Picture Quote #1

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Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts Picture Quote #1

When diamonds’ role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep blood diamonds out of international trade Picture Quote #1

The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did Picture Quote #1

Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence to support Martin Luther King Jr., to support the civil rights movement, and other important work, including work in Africa throughout his career. And Bill Russell is still at it Picture Quote #1

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts Picture Quote #1

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth’s biocapacity - the capacity of the world’s ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances Picture Quote #1

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Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it’s the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection Picture Quote #1

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death Picture Quote #1

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can’t travel easily or at all through some countries Picture Quote #1

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food Picture Quote #1

I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense Picture Quote #1

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can’t keep people down forever. It’s unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did Picture Quote #1

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I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town Picture Quote #1

I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‘You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.’ Picture Quote #1

I don’t really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that’s not ballin’ to me Picture Quote #1

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability Picture Quote #1

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing Picture Quote #1

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can’t walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa Picture Quote #1

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As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole Picture Quote #1

As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there Picture Quote #1

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa Picture Quote #1

We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world’s biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East Picture Quote #1

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The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people’s minds, in people’s heads. (Africa Quotes) I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don’t know, though. (Africa Quotes) We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. (Africa Quotes) There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people. (Africa Quotes) The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market. (Africa Quotes) I’m not sure the oil producers are enjoying real growth. That troubles me. For experience has shown that oil can be more of a curse than a blessing. And not only in Africa. (Africa Quotes) Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts. (Africa Quotes) When diamonds’ role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep blood diamonds out of international trade. (Africa Quotes) The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did. (Africa Quotes) Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence to support Martin Luther King Jr., to support the civil rights movement, and other important work, including work in Africa throughout his career. And Bill Russell is still at it. (Africa Quotes) I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, and that they sometimes leave the perception in the public that the war on poverty has been lost. That Africa is just a bottomless pit of despair. When, in fact, really the opposite is true on both fronts. (Africa Quotes) The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth’s biocapacity - the capacity of the world’s ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances. (Africa Quotes) Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it’s the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection. (Africa Quotes) Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death. (Africa Quotes) The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can’t travel easily or at all through some countries. (Africa Quotes) In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food. (Africa Quotes) I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense. (Africa Quotes) I knew South Africa was going to change; you can’t keep people down forever. It’s unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did. (Africa Quotes) I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town (Africa Quotes) I’ve still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, ‘You know, that’s the truth. I wasn’t there, and I wasn’t a six-foot black girl, but that’s the truth.’ (Africa Quotes) I don’t really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that’s not ballin’ to me. (Africa Quotes) But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. (Africa Quotes) If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing. (Africa Quotes) The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can’t walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa. (Africa Quotes) As the CIA tried to find itself, the threat of international terrorism emanating from the Middle East, Africa, North Africa and Central and Southeast Asia grew with each strike: the first World Trade Center attack in 1993, the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. (Africa Quotes) As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created. (Africa Quotes) 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. (Africa Quotes) As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there. (Africa Quotes) Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. (Africa Quotes) We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world’s biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East. (Africa Quotes)

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