Quotes about africa
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First of all, Bolshevism represents... C. L. R. James
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The perception that the wicket was flat played a part (in the way South Africa bowled),
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We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition. Kofi Annan
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There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project. Rande Gerber
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We stopped thinking about what the world should do for Africa and we started thinking about what we could do with Africans. Bill Clinton
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Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts. Martin Jacques
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'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them. Nnedi Okorafor
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The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.
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There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is Edward James Olmos
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Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it. Eddie Murphy
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WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.
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Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. Cassandra Wilson
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Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well. Chanel Iman
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The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. Charles Rangel
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Don't gain the world and lose your... Bob Marley
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Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs.
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I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which, since 2000, more than two-thirds of African countries have had multi-party democratic elections. Not all of them have been perfect, or will be, but the trend is very clear. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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Whether she was meeting with (Nelson) Mandela in South Africa or meeting with the president of the United States, she will be known as one who never wavered, never moved away from the notion that we could develop an internationally peaceful world. Robert Green
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We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.
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We remember the victims of the tsunami in Southeast Asia. But millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts. These are silent tsunamis.
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When we go to South Africa it is going to be pretty hostile there. They are going to rip into us and nail us. They have to expect Australian crowds to nail them but the racist stuff is not on. I am disappointed that has happened, if it has, and hopefully it stops. Shane Warne
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What he'll be hoping to do is emulate what leaders in other African countries where reputations have suddenly taken a knock, and that is ride it out.
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We found that American Indians and Alaska Natives, African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be victims of fraud than non-Hispanic whites.
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What South Africa should remember is that they can fire up the crowd and we can fire up the crowd, but all that matters is (the cricket). Justin Langer
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Yes, a lot of African countries have been coming to China,
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We feel that the genre of African dance it's not unlike the genre of French classical dance or modern dance it's simply a genre. It's not a novelty. It's become one of the standard art forms of dance.
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We're expecting a very hard conTest ? South Africa will be desperate for a series win, after losing to Australia. We have never won a series against South Africa, and we have a real hunger for this series. We want to measure ourselves in South Africa, where our results have always been poor. Stephen Fleming
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We're quite clear that's what we need to do if the African Union agrees, but the African Union must be brought to agree.
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There are people who have been in Harlem for years who have paved the way for us. A lot of people are moving into the community and the demographics are changing, but a lot of young African American professionals are doing just what Gail and I have done -- they're not only moving back to the community and becoming homeowners, they're saying we want to be business owners as well. That's an important demographic change, too.
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We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people. Kym Whitley
african life
In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.
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We recommend that a moratorium on the purchase and sale of South African land to non-citizens be imposed with immediate effect, as an interim measure until appropriate legislation has been promulgated.
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads of state pledged 10 percent of their national budgets to achieve 6 percent annual growth in agriculture. By 2008, 20 African countries had met or exceeded that 6 percent target. Sylvia Mathews Burwell