Stand-up is not just
Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It’s global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years. Gabriel Iglesias
South Africa
I can still go
I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me. Evangeline Lilly
But certainly in Uganda,
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
When President Mbeki said,
When President Mbeki said, if you get AIDS, you can have a shower and it goes away. It’s like, oh, come on. Or it’s caused by poverty. We faced those kind of issues. But now, with the new regime, they have really woken up, paid attention. And when South Africa speaks, then the whole of … Read more
And now South Africa
And now South Africa has finally woken up and it is doing great things. And if South Africa becomes the template to what AIDS is in the sub-Saharan continent, then all the other countries are going to follow suit. And Michel Sidibe, who spoke at the breakfast meeting this morning, was saying that there is … Read more
Everywhere I\\’ve been, from
Everywhere I’ve been, from South Africa to Brazil, people are connected to it. For me, art is a way to bring people together. You can put people on the same level, the perception is the same. You can bring a worker, like a cleaning guy, or the richest guy on earth, and they will have … Read more
Disengagement is a response
Disengagement is a response to certain demographic realities, .. Within a few years, due to the higher Arab birth rate, Jews will become a minority in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. I don’t want [Israel] to be South Africa because we don’t believe in apartheid. We simply have to separate … Read more
If the day comes
If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (also for the Palestinians in the territories), then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished. Ehud Olmert
Uninformed and yet open
Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa. Edward Said
My thinking was taught
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four. Edward de Bono