668 Quotes About African

So a lot of suburban counties, a lot of exurban counties, that used to be all white are now getting new Hispanics and in some cases Asians and African Americans. And what this does is give much of America a first taste of what diversity is like.

It's really a tragedy that the world has done so little to stop this disease that kills 2000 African children every day.

As we step up malaria research, it's also critically important to save lives today with existing tools. Bed nets cost just a few dollars each, but only a small fraction of African children sleep under one.

I don't think the school board, certainly not the black community, is going to be easily misdirected just because I'm African American. I think that you're not going to decide that everything is fine just because I'm here. I understand that.

I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

It has both social, political and historical dynamics to it. That story is not singularly an African American story, it has universality to it.

Looking at AIDS as an African problem will be at odds with the reality of the disease.