51 Quotes on African

• Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

  Author: Cassandra Wilson

• The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

  Author: Lynn Swann

• This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.

  Author: Tim Scott

• In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

  Author: Charles Rangel

• Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.

  Author: Bob Pettit

• There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

  Author: Donald Payne

• When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.

  Author: Solomon Ortiz

• There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.

  Author: Edward Olmos

• Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

  Author: Anne Northup

• I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

  Author: Robert Mugabe

• We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

  Author: Constance Motley

• If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

  Author: Roger Milla

• Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

  Author: James Meredith

• I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

  Author: Tim Meadows

• Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

  Author: Cynthia McKinney

• The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent.

  Author: Thabo Mbeki

• Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

  Author: Richard Leakey

• However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

  Author: William Labov

• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  Author: William Labov

• This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

  Author: William Labov

• If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

  Author: Nicholas Kristof

• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  Author: Jack Kemp

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

  Author: Ric Keller

• From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

  Author: John Hoeven

• We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.

  Author: Gilbert Hernandez

• Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

  Author: Alexis Herman

• Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

  Author: Pam Grier

• I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.

  Author: Lucas Grabeel

• There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

  Author: Boutros Ghali

• We are African in origin and American in birth.

  Author: Timothy Fortune

• Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

  Author: Chaka Fattah

• I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

  Author: Nigel Dennis

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  Author: Nat Cole

• Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

  Author: Michael Castle

• Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

  Author: Michael Castle

• When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

  Author: Tony Campolo

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  Author: Omar Bongo

• In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

  Author: Omar Bongo

• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  Author: Larry Bird

• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  Author: Xavier Becerra

• To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

  Author: Stephen Ambrose

• For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

  Author: Ama Aidoo

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