African Quotes
Quotes from African writers, leaders and thinkers — cited to a published source wherever one is known. 269 in the archive.
- He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.Nigeria
- Fools multiply when wise men are silent.South Africa
- Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.South Africa
- All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?.Nigeria
- Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.South Africa
- All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.Liberia
- God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.Egypt
- In the begining God said 'Let there be light', and when there was light, there was physics.Cameroon
- My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity.Nigeria
- Half education is more dangerous than no education.Nigeria
- The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.Nigeria
- You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.United States
- For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.United States
- History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.Egypt
- History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.Ethiopia
- Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don't even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.Nigeria
- A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.South Africa
- There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.South Africa
- Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.Nigeria
- I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.South Africa
- I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.South Africa
- I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.Egypt
- I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.Nigeria
- I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.South Africa