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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
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Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
Author:
Cassandra Wilson
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Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
Author:
Cassandra Wilson
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Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
Author:
Diane Watson
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I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.
Author:
Abdoulaye Wade
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Author:
Gabrielle Union
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
Author:
Paul Theroux
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Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.
Author:
Lewis Tappan
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We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
Author:
Lynn Swann
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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
Author:
Lynn Swann
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Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
Author:
Lynn Swann
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This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.
Author:
Helen Suzman
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Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
Author:
Cat Stevens
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Author:
Howard Stern
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Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.
Author:
Michael Steele
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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.
Author:
Henry Stanley
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Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl.
Author:
Aaron Spelling
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The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
Author:
Tony Snow
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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
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As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.
Author:
Antony Sher
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I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
Author:
Leah Sears
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I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
Author:
Leah Sears
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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
Author:
Leah Sears
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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
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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
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The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Author:
Albert Schweitzer
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Author:
Carlos Santana
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I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
Author:
James Rogers
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My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.
Author:
Lee Ritenour
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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
Author:
Faith Ringgold
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
Author:
Faith Ringgold
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
Author:
Bernice Reagon
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The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
Author:
Charles Rangel
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Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick.
Author:
Bob Pettit
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There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.
Author:
Jean-Marie Pen
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I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.
Author:
Donald Payne
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Author:
Barack Obama
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Author:
Barack Obama
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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
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I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
Author:
Joanna Newsom
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Author:
Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
Author:
Constance Motley
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As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.
Author:
Steve Mitchell
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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
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Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
Author:
James Meredith
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I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.
Author:
Ken Mehlman
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Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
Author:
Ken Mehlman
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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
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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
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Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
Author:
Bobby McFerrin
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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
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Author:
Miriam Makeba
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Author:
Wangari Maathai
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We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
Author:
Arto Lindsay
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I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Author:
Spike Lee
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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
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Author:
Queen Latifah
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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
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An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
Author:
William Labov
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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
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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
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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
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The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Author:
Jack Kemp
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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
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With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
Author:
Michael Johns
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I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.
Author:
Joseph Jarman
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
Author:
Mahalia Jackson
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As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.
Author:
Alphonso Jackson
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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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
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I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
Author:
Anita Hill
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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
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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
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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
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I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion.
Author:
Lucas Grabeel
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I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.
Author:
Retief Goosen
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I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
Author:
Danny Glover
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Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects.
Author:
Danny Glover
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Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
Author:
Danny Glover
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
Author:
Ed Gillespie
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
Author:
Boutros Ghali
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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
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From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
Author:
Bill Frist
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The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
Author:
Bill Frist
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We are African in origin and American in birth.
Author:
Timothy Fortune
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Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
Author:
Ruth First
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Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.
Author:
Chaka Fattah
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Author:
Chaka Fattah
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It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.
Author:
Eliot Engel
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Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
Author:
Philip Emeagwali
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We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
Author:
Roger Ebert
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We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.
Author:
Katherine Dunham
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The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
Author:
Taye Diggs
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
Author:
Janice Dickinson
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The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
Author:
Jared Diamond
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I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.
Author:
Nigel Dennis
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
Author:
Elijah Cummings
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People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.
Author:
Bob Cousy
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Author:
Nat Cole
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
Author:
John Clarke
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During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Author:
Michael Castle
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Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.
Author:
Michael Castle
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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
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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
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Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.
Author:
Ben Campbell
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I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
Author:
Zola Budd
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An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
Author:
H. Brown
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
Author:
Donna Brazile
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Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.
Author:
Anthony Braxton
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
Author:
Omar Bongo
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Author:
Larry Bird
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According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
Author:
Xavier Becerra
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African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Author:
Xavier Becerra
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
Author:
Xavier Becerra
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I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
Author:
Benjamin Banneker
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What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.
Author:
Roy Ayers
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No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.
Author:
Timothy Ash
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What's really good is African drum music.
Author:
Fiona Apple
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To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.
Author:
Stephen Ambrose
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I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry.
Author:
Rodney Alexander
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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
