African Quotes

You have to look at African-American turnout, particularly in Prince George's County. If that turns out his way, that can be helpful. - Carlos Watson

You have a young African-American taking some food from a grocery store after their home was ruined by a flood and it's called looting. A white person is taking food from a grocery store and it's called finding bread and soda. - Jesse Jackson

You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution. - Henry Louis Gates

You get to hear the true African harmony. It shows the richness in our voices. - Sipokazi Luzipo

You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter is that, for all South African filmmakers, because we don't make a lot of films, you feel an unrealistic pressure that your film has to say so much and has to be about everything in South Africa. - Gavin Hood

You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla. - African Proverb

You certainly like to see more African-Americans out there working in mathematics. I'm certainly happy to have the honor. It's nice to know your work is taken seriously. - William Massey

Yes, a lot of African countries have been coming to China. - Liu Jianchao

World hunger is getting ridiculous. There's more fruit in my shampoo than there is in an African village. - Unknown