Africa
Living in South Africa has had a very profound impact on my career.
Author: Gail KellyTopics: Africa, Career, Famous, Living, Profound impact, Purposeful Living
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
Topics: Africa, Couple, Encouraged, Family, Famous, Grew Up, Nuclear Family, Positive, SportsmanYou either get the point of Africa or you don’t. What draws me back year after year is that it’s like seeing the world with the lid off
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Afraid, Africa, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Seeing, Times, Times of difficulty, World
I’d like to go to Africa, away from water, away from what’s normal for us. When you put yourself in those places your life looks so far away. It makes a big impact.
Author: Gabrielle ReeceTopics: Africa, Dislike, Famous, Looks, Normal, Water
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general.
Author: PinkTopics: Africa, Consumerism, Diverts, Famous, General, Iraq, Thinking, Women’s, Women’s Rights
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
Author: Chinua Achebe
Topics: Africa, Europe, European, Master, Master key, Moral, Moral character, Physical, Physical Life, Pictures, Picturing, Piece
I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Topics: Africa, Citizen, Develop, Engine, Famous, Feelings, Found, Founded, Life, Majority, Make, Meaningful, Whole Life
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Topics: Africa, Children, Clear, Goal, Listen, Literacy, Literally, Stories
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Topics: Africa, Changes, Channeling, Famous, Feelings, Leaders, Leads, Life, Meaningful, Problem, Problem-Solving, Rule, Rules to live by
I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
Author: Paris HiltonTopics: Africa, Famous, Great, Love, Meaningful
Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
Author: Matthew McConaugheyTopics: Africa, Beautiful, Famous, Meaningful, Places
Our success educationally, industrially, and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Africa, Educationally, Famous, Industrially, Meaningful, Nation, Politically, Protection
Africa for the Africans… at home and abroad!
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Abroad, Africa, African, Famous, Home, Inspirational, Meaningful
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Africa, Desire, Famous, Good, Meaningful, People
We welcome the opposition of the world because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa’s battle-cry is not yet heard.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Africa, Determined, Famous, Meaningful, Opposition, World
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial, and political prize in the world.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Africa, Commercials, Famous, Hunters, Industrial, Looms, Meaningful, Nation, Political, World
We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Africa, Ethiopia, Famous, God, Influence, Life, Meaningful, Stretching, Teaching, World
Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Africa, Crowned, Inspirational, King, Look, Meaningful