- Nov 07, 2020
Africa Quotes
A continent, spoken of in its own right.
This page includes a clearly inclusive statement rejecting homophobia as any part of a forward-looking African future, alongside a call to nurture fresh ideas that could genuinely help the continent, similar to Country quotes.
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- Missing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
- Fertilizer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer be increased: it is already being overused everywhere except some parts of Africa, and the runoff is polluting rivers, lakes, and oceans.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
- Nonsense
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa has lost its dream, and when people don't have a dream and don't pursue it, they flounder. People are shocked that I would move to Africa. But I say the place of greatest need is the place of greatest opportunity.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.
- Exhibition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been invited to do an exhibition or do a talk in England, except once, about 10 years ago. I've given talks all across Canada, many in the United States, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan - but not England.
- Represent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to have Wakanda represent all of Africa.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020