Quotes About African Food

#1. I love African food, I love Italian food, but I rarely eat Italian out because it's so easy to make at home. On the other hand, unless you have specialized equipment, Chinese food is really tough because you literally can't get the pan hot enough.

Robert Sietsema

#2. We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

Marcus Samuelsson

#3. There's a third element of the raw material that makes a true leader: involvement. True leaders are always in the middle of the action. They do not sit in the background telling everyone else what to do while they live a life of comfort away from the fray.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#4. From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Mary Landrieu

#5. I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

Alber Elbaz

#6. They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter."
Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird."
Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#7. The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

Ben Aaronovitch

#8. Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken by an Indian, an American, a Chinese, an European, an African or an Australian!

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge.

James W. Loewen

#10. I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make you slap yo' Aint Emma" was apt in her case.

Mars Hill

#11. Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Paulo Coelho

#12. Life is funny. Why should the afterlife be any different?

Nick Shamhart

#13. It's no fun being a specimen.

Dick Cavett

#14. A look says more than words alone. That's a cliche, of course. But a cliche, also says more than words alone.

Herman Koch

#15. Sometimes ... " He paused and squeezed his eyes shut. " Sometimes our hearts ... crack a little." -Jack

Brodi Ashton

#16. The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

Norman Parkinson

#17. In America we saw more food than we had seen in all our lives and we were so happy we rummaged through the dustbins of our souls to retrieve the stained, broken pieces of God.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#18. Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless.

Benjamin Zephaniah

#19. Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.

Sister Souljah

#20. The economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants and Indonesian labourers return home after a hard day's work with less food than did their ancestors 500 years ago.

Yuval Noah Harari

#21. 'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

Leymah Gbowee

#22. It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.

Marcus Samuelsson

#23. I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

Newt Gingrich

#24. All men are dogs, Nichelle, and if you don't feed your dog, you can't be surprised when he's in the neighbor's trash looking for food.

Norian F. Love

#25. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.

David Benioff

#26. I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.

Cathy Moriarty

#27. Looking outside of yourself for a solution might sound easy, but most solutions you seek come from within.

Richard Morin

#28. When things are finally falling into the right places, something happens that puts you back to square one.

Christine Celis

#29. What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.

Marcus Samuelsson