#africa

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South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.


Mangosuthu Buthelezi


#blessed #give #hands #hearts #like

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.


Katherine Dunham


#african american #always #american #another #appalachian

Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food chain.


Taona Dumisani Chiveneko


#flame-lily #great-zimbabwe #hangman #mystrey #parnormal

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.


Bono


#africa #around #brigade #cans #continent

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.


Gro Harlem Brundtland


#aids #center #development #health #only

An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.


William Labov


#african american #against #american #american children #aspect

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.


Chaka Fattah


#african #african american #american #american children #children

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.


Chaka Fattah


#african americans #benefits #currently #daily #depend

Most of the ancestors that I can trace were born here in the United States of America. And then it goes back to slavery. And I'm sure my ancestors go all the way back to Africa, but I feel more of an affinity for America than I do for Africa. I'm a black man in America.


Herman Cain


#africa #america #ancestors #back #black

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.


Stokely Carmichael


#certain #corrupt #distinguish #dogs #guns