Southern Africa Quotes

#1. The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity or is faced with advanced preparation for its commencement.

Joe Slovo

#2. Reality shows that, contrary to other countries in southern Africa, we have no basis for a classical guerilla struggle. We have never had a hinterland, and we do not expect to.

Joe Slovo

#3. Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. 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

#5. You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

Naomi Novik

#6. People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Kenneth Kaunda

#7. From way up here, Southern Africa looks like a creature that's rolled over to expose the vast curve of a mottled brown belly with a grey tracery of veins.

Miranda Sherry

#8. In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land,

Miriam Makeba

#9. It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

James A. Michener

#10. You ask how I feel to be the first female president in southern Africa? It's heavy for me. Heavy in the sense that I feel that I'm carrying this heavy load on behalf of all women.

Joyce Banda

#11. Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

Leonid Brezhnev

#12. The Internet is emblematic of an era in which what happens in Southeast Asia or southern Africa - from democratic advances to deforestation to the fight against aids - can affect Americans. As has been observed about water pollution, we all live downstream now.

Shashi Tharoor

#13. To make a movie about mayhem, sometimes you have to go to mayhem.

Todd Phillips

#14. South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing.

Lisa Morton

#15. I'm always trying to look for different roles.

Eric Close

#16. I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

Brenda Russell

#17. Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben

Nora Roberts

#18. I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

Bela Fleck

#19. Can our morrows be foretold?
Your Grace might ask instead should our morrows be foretold? And to that I should answer no. Some doors are best left closed.
See that you close mine as you leave.

George R R Martin

#20. To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

Carroll Quigley

#21. The Mediterranean was, before the northern European industrial revolution, one of the wealthiest regions in the world. Divisions between Muslim North Africa and Christian southern Europe were contained, if not always peacefully. The

George Friedman

#22. If there were only one meaning for the words, the first interpreter would find it, and all other listeners would have neither the toil of seeking nor the pleasure of finding.

Ephrem The Syrian

#23. I think a show can work anywhere if it's done honestly, with integrity, and with confidence.

Joey McIntyre

#24. Everything happens through relationships.

Arne Glimcher

#25. I was deliberately southern African. Not in a good or easy way. There is no getting around the fact that there had been so much awful violence to get me here; my people had engaged in such terrible acts of denial and oppression; I so obviously did not look Africa; and yet here I still was.

Alexandra Fuller

#26. The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

David Nabarro