Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.

I carry the continent of Africa on my shoulders proudly.

I am proud to be an African.

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

I am the hero of Africa.

I am an African and I am very proud of that.

I'm trying to have Wakanda represent all of Africa.

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. I say 'African' because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

We have our own script. We have our own calendar. We represent the greatness of Africa's past. We also represent the worst of Africa's present, in terms of poverty. It is the best and the worst of African reality.

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.

Afrocentricity seeks to re-locate the African person as an agent in human history in an effort to eliminate the illusion of the fringes.

Wakanda, in short, is the Africa of black dreams.

I've always said that even before Cameroon, I belong to Africa.

My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge.

I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

I am extremely proud to be a part of the NBA's first game in Africa. Coming from South Sudan and having participated in the Basketball without Borders Africa camps in Johannesburg previously, I am truly honored to be part of this historic event.

There are some people who are happy to be African writers. They are pan-Africanists. I'm not a pan-Africanist. I think African countries have a lot in common. But we are also very different.

They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

When we play at the World Cup, any African will back any African team. Because we want to hear the different approach to African football. We want to hear that Africans can do well, and Africans do well.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!