Ghana Quotes - Page 2

• What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?

  Hannah

  Leader, Movement, Agents

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• The summer I finished my first novel Ghana Must Go, I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lomé to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

  Taiye Selasi

  Summer, West, Firsts

  "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots" by Taiye Selasi, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• I think we have more athleticism, I think we have more pace and that's going to be important to deal with Ghana.

  Tim Howard

  Thinking, Important, Pace

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• During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana.

  Malcolm X

  Eye, Past, White

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.391, Ballantine Books

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• I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It means a lot. It means a lot morally, it means a lot from a -- it's in our national interest.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Differences, America

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• I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

  Taiye Selasi

  Mother, Father, Boston

  "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots". www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

  Shirley Temple

  People, Actresses, Know Me

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• Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

  Bill Gates

  Kenya, Globalization, Made

  "Bill Gates Talks to TIME About the Three Myths of Global Aid". Interview with Jeffrey Kluger, time.com. January 21, 2014.

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• My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

  Ato Essandoh

  College, Ideas, Parent

  "'Copper's' Ato Essandoh: 'I look at Doctor Who'". Interview with Jacqueline Cutler, screenertv.com. June 30, 2013.

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• I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

  Donald Evans

  Morning, Needs, Development

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• While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Motivation, Inspiration, Gdp

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• If they asked me, I would have to say no. I made up my mind to play for the United States some day and I'm sticking to it. 
  (on playing for Ghana)

  Freddy Adu

  Play, Usa, Mind

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• I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country, which had the income per capita of Ghana in 1965, and make it something similar to the United States in one generation.

  Juan Enriquez

  Country, Digital Revolution, United States

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  New York, Stars, Dark

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Would you phone the president of Ghana?

  Jose Mourinho

  Phones, President

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