Africa Quotes

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

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

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.

I LOVE Africa in general, South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

We can change South Africa on the rugby field

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

What is South Africa’s sound? What are they supposed to bring that ignites the rest of the body of Christ around the globe?

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

It's a big problem in South Africa up to this day: many people want to open factories, they want to invest, but then they discover that they don't have the skilled people to employ.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.

We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.

I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs.

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

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.