“One thing Africa did not cure is that I still love you.”— Steven Knight, James Keziah Delaney, Tom Hardy, imdb.com
“Archie: I think that if God had meant us to be together, He'd have put us together. But look what He done. He put you over in Africa, and He put the rest of us in all the white countries. Sammy Davis Jr.: Well, you must have told him where we were, 'cause somebody came and got us.”— Elias Davis, Archie Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, imdb.com
“Stan: My uncle Jimbo says that after this he's gonna take me hunting in Africa. Kyle: Wow. That'd be cool. Cartman: My mom says there's a lot of black people in Africa.”— Matt Stone, Eric Cartman, Trey Parker, imdb.com
“The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers. I could regard them in no other light than a band of successful robbers, who had left their homes, and gone to Africa, and stolen us from our homes, and in a strange land reduced us to slavery. I loathed them as being the meanest…”— Frederick Douglass, amazon.com
“A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz. Which is partly the point. Africa as setting and backdrop which eliminates the African as human factor. Africa as a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity,…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“‘Africa is people’ may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still give us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Meet me in Africa.”— Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Glen Bishop, Martin Holden Weiner, imdb.com
“I wanted to conquer Rhodesia because I truly believe that Africa would be happier, richer and safer as part of the British Empire. People say that this empire-building was all about ‘taking’ and ‘stealing’: but life in Rhodesia was very good – even for the people we conquered.”— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com
“Why did I come to Africa? Well, they will tell you that I came on account of my health, or from a love of adventure—and to some extent that may be true; but the real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.”— Cecil Rhodes, books.google.com
“Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes.”— Cecil Rhodes, pages.uoregon.edu
“I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race...If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British Red as possible...”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“To and for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration from the United Kingdom, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands where t…”— Cecil Rhodes, en.wikiquote.org
“Heather McNamara: God, aren't they fed yet? Do they even have Thanksgiving in Africa? Veronica Sawyer: Oh, sure. Pilgrims, Indians, Tater Tots. It's a real party continent.”— Daniel Waters, Veronica Sawyer, Winona Ryder, amazon.com
“I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's stress. You're not going to find a pygmy on Paxil, I'll tell you that right now.”— Ellen Degeneres, imdb.com
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? — Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own ex…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whining.”— Tim Minchin, brandongaille.com