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I am interested in seeing how the South African audience responds to seeing themselves in a show like this.
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I am South African by birth, but because of my father's job, our family traveled a lot. While living in places like Africa and Australia, we visited indigenous peoples. From the beginning, I carried a camera to document the beauty and wonder of these far-flung countries. I also realized many of these cultures were faced with issues I could not ignore. I understood at a very early age, things were not like they were represented in travel magazines.
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There are (numerous) reasons why African leaders need to be more strategic in cultivating a relationship with the diaspora. Kenneth Kaunda
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When they had (Nelson) Mandela shows in London the bill was really mixed and I don't think we lost any viewers as a result. African artists are strong, charismatic and compelling, and I think they hold people's attention. Peter Gabriel
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I think the president is going to have to nominate a woman or Hispanic or an African American, and that probably the situation (with Hurricane Katrina) is such that an elevation makes good sense now.
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I think that if I took this into a court of law and put this (theory) forward, then we have conclusively and beyond a reasonable doubt proved that the African crowned eagle was the killer.
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It is for the leaders who are concerned to take this decision. We hope that the African Union will decide to move to a U.N. mission. Javier Solana
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This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certainly be a best practice for any other country on the continent or anywhere else in the world.
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What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock. Jack Bruce
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There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others. Hans Rosling
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American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated. Khaled Hosseini
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections, Alexander McQueen
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African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us. Cynthia McKinney
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But at the same time you can't... Angela Davis
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Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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The cause of freedom is not the... Anna Julia Cooper
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I was quite taken with her, because I'd never seen the African influence in dance with that kind of strength and artistic power. It impacted my soul. No one had reached those heights. She was the definitive black dance company. She moved among the highest intellectuals of black culture, all the writers and painters and literary folk. Harry Belafonte
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If the African Union is to have a strong voice it has to foster constructive criticism, not bury it.
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He was an African boy who was all-American.
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We must promote patriotism, but we can never again allow South African children to be forced to submit to the degrading dogma of racial nationalism.
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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
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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
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I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a song from that album. That's the way I listen to music; it's like one of those K Tel things: it's from all over. I listen to Fred Astaire, I listen to African folk music, I listen to Talking Heads. Robert Palmer
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Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans. James Meredith
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One of the struggles and one of the exciting things for South African filmmakers is: What stories are we allowed to tell? I hope for the industry that more and more, it will tell whatever stories it likes. Gavin Hood
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Music is the beginning of language to all humans. African Americans' music, in particular, harks back to a common sort of ancestry. It is a global kind of language: You don't need to understand English to understand blues or jazz.
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My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelation Part 1: The Root of Life' is a tribute to roots reggae music. The fruit is what blossoms into different colors and shades, but the root has to stand predominant. Stephen Marley
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My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of the church because we were very much part of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. At family gatherings, the older folk had the floor, had pride of place, and it was their stories I remember. John Edgar Wideman
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Moreover, African American women represented 67% of all new AIDS cases among women, and were 23 times more likely to be infected than white women. Corrine Brown
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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today. Cory Booker
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No other African state was launched with so much promise for the future,