Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Truth is a continuous examination, and Fact... always supersedes belief.

African Origins of the Major "Western Religions"

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape

The Heart of a Woman

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Midnight Riot

The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.

Ron Eglash

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

Philip Emeagwali

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

Pratibha Patil

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Richard Leakey

I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.

Taiye Selasi

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

Kofi Annan

Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.

Michael Ignatieff

If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

Mo Ibrahim

Very soon nations will understand that in reality Water is the most expensive natural resource for their survivals. Not Middle East oil neither African gold.

M.F. Moonzajer

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.

Mick Taylor

The only people who can fix Africa are talented young Africans. By unlocking and nurturing their creative potential, we can create a step change in Africa's future.

Neil Turok

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

Youssou N'Dour

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

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen ...

Henry Louis Gates

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Henry Louis Gates