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Africa Quotes

Except for a very few elite pro racers up front, the Dakar Rally is not, at heart, a contest among the competitors; the battle, instead, is between mankind - more precisely, Western mankind, with all its fire-breathing machinery and inexorable arrogance - and Africa, which has been proving itself untamable for centuries now.

Heart Arrogance Battle Now Africa

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.

T. Boone Pickens

Feeling Africa More Average Own Who

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

Henning Mankell

Smile People Say Africa More Than

When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.

America Create Africa Same Names

Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

You Go Know Africa Line Out

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.

People You Find Want Places Africa

One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.

Dreams People Survival Find Africa

The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

Community Immigrants Paris Africa

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

Money Opportunities You Lose Africa

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

Sea Problems Island Africa Poor

Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.

Character Know Will Africa Genocide

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

Music Community Africa Everything

I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.

Daughter Great Africa Two Grandson

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

School Africa Make Than Secondary

State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States.

David E. Sanger

Intelligence Africa Oil Mexico Been

Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.

Christoffel Wiese

People Young Africa Resources Market

South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Women Men Blessed Hands You Africa

During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

Cyril Ramaphosa

Hope Courage Struggle Church Africa

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

Clifford Geertz

Time Understand Africa Hard Going

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

J. Philippe Rushton

School Canada Places Africa Later

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

Charlize Theron

Travel World Reading Look Africa Up

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.

Chuck Palahniuk

Brother Eating Think You Africa

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

Free Independent Africa Cultures Own

'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.

Love Book Story Feeling Africa Out

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