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I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

— Leymah Gbowee

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.

— Pam Gems

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

— Anna Jameson

I am proud to be an African.

— Brenda Fassie

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

— Haile Selassie

I am the hero of Africa.

— Idi Amin

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

My African roots made me what I am today. They're the reason I exist at all.

— Junot Diaz

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

— Anna Jameson

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

✗Opposing Perspectives

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

— Haile Selassie