Top 215 Quotes & Sayings by Sudanese Authors

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing.

Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

My father married out of the family. I also married outside the family.

The only foreign policy advice I heard from China was when they said to Sudan, 'Don't go back to war.' That's all they said. They didn't push anything else.

My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa.

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

We measure everything - why not governance?

I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.

Cape Verde produces good people.

Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem.

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

The mobile industry changed Africa.

Africa offers the highest return on investment in the world.

Roads are not practical in Africa.

India has always stood with Africa on the freedom struggle against colonial powers.

I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

Young people are so brave when they go to fight.

In Sudan, we have been targeted by western countries because we have rejected their hegemony on Sudan and turned their companies away that were only interested in oil.

My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is.

As a politician, I worked very, very hard in order to maintain the unity of our country. That was my aim.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.'

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of the bank. So people have to use the Internet.

It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.

From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.

All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world.

War destroys people's souls. Most people focus on physical injuries, but the invisible injuries can take a lifetime to heal and affects the lives of generations to come.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

Many Arabic/Islamic words have now entered the English dictionary, such as haj, hijab, Eid, etc., and I no longer need to put them in italics or explain them.

Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. They do agriculture.

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

Experience counts in government even more than in business.