Quotes of: African Keyword

[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born in Africa, speak A...

John McWhorter

When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

Yaya Toure

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

To progress in life, I don’t focus on how much I have done but on how much I have yet to do.

Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.

Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

qYour pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

Yaya Toure

To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.

Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.

Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland! Africa, your people cries for you! Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberated you...

Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost is not eaten.

South African

Fear is no obstacle to death.

West African

Charlie Allnut: Nobody in Africa, but yours truly, can get a good head of steam on the old African Queen.

The African Queen

If you just compare South Africans to the rest of the world, I think that white South Africans, and especially English-speaking white South Africans, are exactly the same as Brits or Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians or Americans.

Neill Blomkamp

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.

Jared Diamond

Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiatio...

John Prendergast

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the h...

Michael Eric Dyson

Even the maid has a family.

South African

Silence is also speech.

West African

Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home.

West African

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African wome...

Wangari Maathai