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One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

— Jill Scott

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

— Jill Scott

The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

— Yaya Toure

What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

— Naomie Harris

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

— Stephen Lewis

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

— George Ayittey

I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

— Gary Frank

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

— Anna Deavere Smith

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

— Don Cheadle

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

— Hugh Masekela

✗Opposing Perspectives

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

— Bono