#africa

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#african american #america #american #experiences #great

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth. ↗

— Tony Snow

#aid #any #earth #money #more

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#already #china #could #exclude #islamic

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. ↗

— John H. Speke

#africa #civilisation #describe #european #evil

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners. ↗

— John H. Speke

#afterwards #again #climate #ever #foreigners

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa. ↗

— John H. Speke

#among #appeared #came #describe #during

Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#always #come #doing #first #first time

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#africa #american #enter #even #fact

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#always #countries #i #thought #vastly