#africa

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#being #called #finding #held #location

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#agriculture #asia #contrasting #countries #developing

I just think you people would be happier back in Africa where you came from. ↗

— George Lincoln Rockwell

#back #came #happier #i #just

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#buds #father #i #italian #mother

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#age #around #eight #elderly #expectancy

All I know is that every time I go to Africa, I am shaken to my core. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#am #core #every #every time #go

African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations—they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#economics-philosophy #grant #leadership #loans #leadership

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa. ↗

— Claudio Reyna

#best #czech #czech republic #fans #ghana

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#african-american women #american women #direction #even #faith

Whose little boy are you? ↗

— James Baldwin

#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god