Mozambique Quotes

• In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

  Carl Sagan

  Men, Stories, Monkeys

  Carl Sagan (2016). “Contact”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use

  Emma Thompson

  Religious, Sex, Uganda

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• Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

  Henning Mankell

  Country, Long, People

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Heart, Worry

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Fighting, People, Dancing

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• At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

  Henning Mankell

  Running, Country, Leaving

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Real, War

  Al-Ahram Weekly interview, 2001.

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• South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.

  Henning Mankell

  Moving, Animal, Europe

  "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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• Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

  Paul Theroux

  Charity, Donors, Existence

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown”, p.421, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Feminism, Sierra Leone, Generations

  "Feminism's global challenge: With one voice" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2011.

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• I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

  Rebel Wilson

  Country, School, Years

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• I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

  Henning Mankell

  Play, Issues, Political

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.

  Nicholas Stern

  Country, Weather, Water

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