Charlayne Hunter Quotes & Sayings

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault

You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens? — Charlayne Hunter-Gault

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa]. — Charlayne Hunter-Gault