Ghana Quotes

• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Liable, Creeds, Changed

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

  Maya Angelou

  Technology, Men, Humanity

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• We had so much fun in Ghana and they are really lovely people.

  Ade Edmondson

  Fun, People, Lovely

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• I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.

  Claudio Reyna

  Soccer, Sports, Strong

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Independence, Liberation, African Continent

  Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart

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• I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

  Don Van Vliet

  Car, Driving, Automobile

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• Every Christmas, all around Ghana, there are tons of these parties and they are full of everything that exists in human life in Ghana and worldwide.

  Taiye Selasi

  Party, Human Life, Humans

  "African Writer Helps Put Her Community On Media Map". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 20, 2011.

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• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  Yasmine Bleeth

  Making Love, Cards, Credit

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• I don’t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.

  Malcolm X

  Home, Visitors, Feels

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• Ghana is like a lion without a head

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Lions

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• Jamaica is one of the most musically influential nations in the world. Throughout the entire globe, there are pockets that are constantly in touch with what goes on in the dancehall community, from Germany to Japan, to different parts of Africa like Ghana.

  Kreesha Turner

  Japan, Jamaica, Community

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Brain, Quota, Drains

  "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

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• As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Light, Long, People

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• I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

  Uzo Aduba

  Father, Home, America

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• In 2009, designer Tina Tangalakis went on a volunteer trip to Ghana and instantly fell in love with the country and its people. It was from that trip that Della was born, a company that provides jobs, education, and skills training to women in Ghana.

  Amanda Hearst

  Country, Jobs, Skills Training

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• I feel comfortable in the US, the UK and in Ghana. They are all home to me in some way.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Home, Way, Feels

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same. The oppressed and exploited people are striving for their freedom against exploitation and suppression. Ghana must not, Ghana cannot be neutral in the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Latin, Struggle, Hands

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• I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody.

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Presidential, Inauguration, Nigeria

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2017

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• At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Country, Long, Forever

  Kwame Nkrumah's first independence speech, www.myjoyonline.com. March 6, 1957.

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• The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.

  Bob Marley

  Blood, Jamaica, People

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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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• Would you phone the president of Ghana?

  Jose Mourinho

  Phones, President

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• Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.

  Jay Ellis

  Country, Castles, Slave

  Source: www.ebony.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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• 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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