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South Africa had very poor repertory distribution. I didn't find out about Akira Kurosawa and Tarkovsky and Werner Herzog until I got to the U.K.
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It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
Dave Matthews
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Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security, and prestige, it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege.
Steven Biko
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Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.


Jennifer Aniston
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
Steven Biko
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We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.
Pratibha Patil
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Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!


Marcus Garvey
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The agricultural potential of Africa is unlimited.


Christoffel Wiese
From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.
Nelson Mandela
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Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.


Jacob Zuma
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.


William Hazlitt
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It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.


Desmond Tutu
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
Wadah Khanfar
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.
George A. Moore
I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.
Dave Matthews
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
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I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.


Kevin Pietersen
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
Damon Galgut
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.
Dave Matthews
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