African Quotes
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African Quotes & Sayings
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I won't react to something just because I'm supposed to, because I'm an African-American
— Kobe Bryant
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
— Lynn Swann
For a certain generation of African immigrants cleaning offices became part of the culture like male circumcision and supporting Arsenal.
— Ben Aaronovitch
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
— Chaka Fattah
Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body
— Malebo Sephodi
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.
— Bobby Jindal
A lot of people refuse to do things ...
— Nikki Giovanni
We may differ in the language we speak, yet we all remain children of the land.
— John Okechukwu Munonye
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.
— Jordan Peele
In a few thousand years, I who regard you will also have sprung from the loins of African kings.
— William Faulkner
The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
— Susan Rice
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
— Serj Tankian
I have a lot of African-American friends.
— Larry Pressler
The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent
— Kwame Nkrumah
Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.
— Pope Francis
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.
— Robert Griffin III
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
— Lynn Swann
Majority of the African countries are now enjoying stable governance. Before you talk about economic growth, political stability is key.
— Goodluck Jonathan
From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.
— Niall Ferguson
African Americans constituted only 15 percent of current drug users in 1995, and they constitute roughly the same percentage today.
— Michelle Alexander
If the house is to be set in order, ...
— John Hope Franklin
It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'
— Theodore Bikel
I think we all have a piece of wild in us that we want to protect. It was a very organic choice for me to support African Wildlife Foundation.
— Veronika Varekova
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.
— Carol Moseley Braun
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
— Debi Thomas
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
— Camille Paglia
Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.
— Ama Ata Aidoo
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
— Bill Frist
Why not invite him in and show him your African bird? Oh,
— Stephen King
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.
— Julie Delpy
You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book
— Bob Geldof
Or have you simply been enjoying that North African river cruise?""You what?"
"In de-Nile? — J.L. Merrow
I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
— Leah Ward Sears
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.
— Peter Abrahams
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.
— Malcolm X
Being black has a lot to do with my ...
— Willi Smith
Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.
— Dave Matthews
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
— Grace Hightower
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
— J. C. Watts
If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.
— Karl Rove
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
— Nadine Gordimer
You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.
— Mo Ibrahim
African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
— George Ayittey
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
— Nat King Cole
I am proud to be an African.
— Brenda Fassie
Our only hope is to control the ...
— Medgar Evers
Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow.
— Walter Rodney
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.
— Rodney Alexander
Lucas, I never wanted children. I just want to be CEO. I want money, power, and on occasion, sex
— Norian F. Love
What's really good is African drum music.
— Fiona Apple
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
— Eric Clapton
Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters. — Gloria D. Gonsalves
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied.
— Henry Louis Gates
PEOPLE DIE THEIR ENERGY DON'T! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
In every crisis there is a message ...
— Susan L. Taylor
You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you.
— Monica Millner
I believe in prayer. It's the best ...
— Josephine Baker
I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).
— Brett Kiellerop-Morris
The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.
— Linford Christie
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
— Christian Scott
One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
At some point I was a Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men and Who Likes to Wear Lip Gloss and High Heels for Herself and Not For Men.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A people without the knowledge of ...
— Marcus Garvey
Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
That's how we do it in the black ...
— Snoop Dogg
Be careful what you swallow. Chew!
— Gwendolyn Brooks
I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
— J.M. Coetzee
The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.
— Whoopi Goldberg
I don't strive on being the most beautiful woman in the room! I strive to be the most unique! The one who stands out, the one you will never forget.
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
— Emmanuel Jal
The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.
— Russell Howard
It is not work that kills, but "worry."
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:7 NLT — Eddie Johnson
