A Quotes
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“Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.”
“Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.”
“Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.”
Source: Out of Africa
“Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.”
“Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .”
“Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.”
“Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.”
“Africa? A book one thumbs
Listlessly, till slumber comes.”
Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
“African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.”
“African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.”
“African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning.”
“African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.”
“African American Congressman Bobby Rush wore a hoodie on the floor of Congress to make a point this week. And they threw him out. They said a hoodie is too scary for Congress. Too scary? Have you ever looked into Michele Bachmann's eyes?”
“African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll.”
“african american women are easy. inferior.
africans are dirty. jungle people.
african americans are lazy. indolent.
african people are too black. ugly.
african americans think they are better than us.
africans think they are better us.
–– listen to the sound of us | we are breaking our mothers heart | the ancestors
weep at how much we look like the hate that came to eat us”
Source: Salt
“African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.”
“African American writers and artists, by the very nature of what they do, will actually enhance or bring together people in a way that might be very, very healthy.”
“African Americans are doing a lot already, but I think we have an opportunity right now to change politics in a way that will result in substantial help for people in need during the economic crisis. And then as the economy recovers, we can see dramatic progress against hunger and poverty.”
“African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.”
“African Americans have even less mobility. For those born to parents in the bottom income quintile, over half (53 percent) remain there as adults, and only a quarter (26 percent) make it to the middle quintile or higher. Considering the disadvantages that low-income African Americans have had as a result of segregation - poor access to jobs and to schools where they can excel - it’s surprising that their mobility, compared to that of other Americans, isn’t even lower. Two explanations come to mind. One is that many African Americans heed the warning that they have to be twice as good to succeed and exhibit more than average hard work, responsibility, and ambition to supplement a little luck. The other is that our affirmative action programs have been moderately successful. Probably some of both are involved.”
Source: The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
“African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.”
“African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.”
“African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994
“African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.”
“African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white family. That 10 cents on the dollar that the African American family used to have crashed down to 5 cents on the dollar, given the focus of predatory lending on the African American community and the degree to which they were really devastated by the foreclosure crisis. So yeah, I think there is a lot of disappointment out there.”
“African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.”
“African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.”
“African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives with a lot of suspicion because we're so inhabited by the notion of being colonized, the post-colonial thought that someone wants us to do something that is their interest and not ours and even it's not true, there's the suspicion of it like where is this going?”
“African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans.”
Source: Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
“African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.”
“African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent. Nobody would say that French film is all European film, or Italian film is all European film. And in the same way that those places have different filmmakers that speak to different issues, all the countries in Africa have that too.”
“African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.”
“African "homosexualities" can never be comfortably slotted within identity politics carved out of Western "gay" and "lesbian" liberation struggles, and display queer and even post-queer characteristics.”
Source: Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Cultures
“African leaders have all the resources that they need. They have them in abundance. Yet they seem to fail to fulfill the wishes of the African people.
The licence of blaming others is running out. Even the racism card is expiring soon. Let's mourn for my beloved Africa.”
“African leaders must desire to liberates it’s people through intensive education (formal and informal). The African people deserve to be educated.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.”
“African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.”
“African nations should invest more in development-oriented projects and partnerships while positioning itself in the new world. Unfortunately, we are lead by politicians.
#DonSantoNotes”
“African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.”
“African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.”
“African problems should have African solutions.”
“African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.”
Source: Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches
“African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.”
“African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.”
“African soil is truly blessed, the natural resources are sufficient proof, it is up to Africans to wake up and take great care of themselves, including those around them.”
“African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be given the same respect. As long as we are treated as valuable partners, we can succeed.”
“African time is a gross abuse of universal wealth”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“African time is a major cancer eating up our economy today”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“African time is a nonchalant attitude towards time”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“African time is an emergency that is out to crush the economy of Africa”
Source: No One Is Better Than You