#africa

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Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.


Lynn Swann


#african americans #always #been #closed #doors

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.


Kim Il-sung


#america #asia #common #each #free

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.


Oliver Tambo


#apartheid #believe #destroy #economy #firstly

The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.


Lewis Tappan


#beneficial #brethren #colored #country #effect

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.


George Tenet


#against #alert #am #asian #attack

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.


Charlize Theron


#africa #always #attracted #bottom #grew

There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.


Paul Theroux


#african #annoying #being #cowboy #cowboy hat

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.


Paul Theroux


#case #developing #direction #few #going

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.


Paul Theroux


#another #books #call #central #corps

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.


Debi Thomas


#african-american #bronze #complain #get #got