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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
View quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

A definition of capitalism... the process whereby American girls turn into American women. (Savages)
View quotes by Christopher Hampton

The American advertiser has made the superior American magazine of today possible.
View quotes by Edward Bok

I did it in the last series against Smith because we saw an emotion that we could tap into ... I won't be doing it to Marcus. [on his treatment of the South African captain]
View quotes by Stephen Fleming

Obviously it is flattering to come high up in a chart like that. [on being 28th sexiest woman in a South African magazine]
View quotes by Bianca Trytsman

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
View quotes by Denis Diderot

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
View quotes by Robert Hughes

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
View quotes by Kofi Annan

I’m supposed to be the sweet all-American girl from American Idol. I remember barfing all night long. I would wake up and I would already have barfed, and I didn’t even know I was barfing.
View quotes by Katherine McPhee

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
View quotes by Mary Landrieu

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
View quotes by Ama Ata Aidoo

“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Every work of art is about everything.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims

“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims



View quotes by Eli Siegel

'Sometimes I'll be walking down the street and I'll hear some American and I'll just go, 'Of course they hate us, of course they can't stand us. We're the most annoying, boisterous creatures in the world.' I mean we come in and we eat mounds of food, and we're like, 'Where's the ketchup for our French fries.' I'm like, 'Shut up.'' - explaining how she REALLY feels about her American fans when being treated poorly in France.
View quotes by Kate Hudson

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
View quotes by Peter Ustinov

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
View quotes by Carlos Santana

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
View quotes by Oscar Wilde

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
View quotes by Howard Stern

If you are born a latin-american, no matter where you go, you remain latin-american
View quotes by Anonymous

I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa]
View quotes by Paul Boateng

It [violence] is as American as cherry pie.
View quotes by H Rap Brown



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