Quotes about africa
african community leadership within
There was leadership in the African American community within the church,
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There was this whole separate league of African American players.
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This locks much of Africa out of the benefits of CDM.
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It's about a real-life safari through Africa going after this huge, bull elephant. After all sorts of trials and tribulations, Scotty has this elephant in his cross hairs.
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It's a fascinating project. It's fascinating because it will broaden people's understanding about the historical context of Little Tokyo and the migration southward of Central Avenue and of African Americans.
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It's a question now of there being life after golf. I'd like to try and get back onto the European Tour fulltime again. But if that doesn't happen, I'll be happy to stay in South Africa and play the circuit here. I'm a family man and I have a good support base here.
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It really has a sophisticated culture. There's European influence. It has native American roots and influence from Africa and the United States.
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It is within that spirit that this meeting has taken place, ... We have over these past hours re-affirmed our commitment to these values. We have reviewed our common histories and shared experiences: The Bahamas accomplishing majority rule in 1967 and South Africa in 1994.
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This is when the northern press started looking at the dehumanization of African Americans in the South.
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This is the most exciting part of the winter and South Africa are a good team who will provide a good test for us. Michael Vaughan
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This just rams home how much the Western world is dependent upon the 'Wild West' for its energy supplies, whether its West Africa or the Middle East or Russia.
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The relationship between the rand and gold prices broke down this year. The main theme was the narrowing of the interest rate differential between South Africa and the U.S.
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There is that potential if some of the low-cost handset and infrastructure initiatives being promoted by manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson can help operators in India, China and Africa push coverage further inland and reach the smaller townships and villages.
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There's a real connection between the misrepresentation of African Americans in popular culture and the violence that has been lodged against them, both physical and economic.
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There's an old African proverb that I have on my desk that says a lot about partnerships. If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
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It's a bad deal for community lending. We've looked at Sovereign's existing lending in the market - from Philadelphia to Boston - and we found that in all of the markets we've looked at they disproportionately deny credit to people of color, African Americans and Latinos. Where credit is granted, they are much more likely to impose higher costs on people of color.
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It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went. Marcus Samuelsson
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It was created out of my personal interest and I took it to Dr. Woods, the head of the African American Studies department.
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It was commissioned by Center Theatre Group's youth program, ... They wanted something based on storytelling, something suitable for whole families. It was supposed to incorporate Br'er Rabbit tales. But once I got into it, I thought, 'Forget Br'er Rabbit. Use human beings.' There are so very, very many African, African American, Caribbean and slave narratives to work with.
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It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi Nelson Mandela
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It was a wake-up call. Everybody speculated South Africa would be a pushover. I was surprised at the caliber and how good they were.
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It's a country in Africa, and Africa is a continent for Kenya. James Jordan
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For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble. Michael Ignatieff
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I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it done. Just because you're African American, you still can touch the masses. And that's my goal. I won't stop until that goal is continued to push it hard to the world that we are the universal person as well. Cory Hardrict
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We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent. Pratibha Patil
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Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. Corrine Brown
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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents. Dinaw Mengestu
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When I began 'All Our Names,' I did so wanting to create parallel narratives between Africa in the nineteen-seventies and America during that same period.
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'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.
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When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamond industry established the Kimberley process in order to keep "blood diamonds" out of international trade. Peter Singer
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since. Bernice Johnson Reagon
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The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man. Taye Diggs
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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture. Anna Deavere Smith