Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.

Anna Deavere Smith

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

Frank Bruno

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

Joanna Newsom

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

Djimon Hounsou

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

Carlos Santana

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

Christian Scott

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Mahalia Jackson

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

Wilbur Smith

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of...

Diriye Osman

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

Omar Bongo

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

Ron Eglash

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

Lucas Grabeel

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

Martin Freeman

Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans.

Mo Ibrahim

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

Ziggy Marley

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

Desmond Tutu

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

Jack Bruce

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

Danai Gurira

Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.

Charles de Secondat

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.

Hendrik Poinar

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

Jean-Marie Le Pen