Quotes of: African-americans Keyword

Alex: How much currency would a first-rate accountant receive in America? Jonathan: I don't know, a lot, probably, if he or she is good. Alex: She? Jonathan: Or he. Alex: Are there Negro accountants? Jonathan: Yes, there are *African American* accoun...

Everything Is Illuminated

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

Jean Pigozzi

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

Mos Def

The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.

Susan Rice

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Jacob Zuma

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.

Mo Ibrahim

I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.

Hugh Masekela

Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.

Tinie Tempah

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

Liev Schreiber

Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.

Mo Ibrahim

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

David Attenborough

What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

F. W. de Klerk

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

George Ayittey

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

Helen Suzman

What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.

Jack Bruce

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

J. M. Coetzee

I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

Binyavanga Wainaina

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Donald Johanson

Gandhi: [to a group of South African bigots] You'll find there's room for all of us here.

Gandhi

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.

Joseph Jarman

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

Antony Sher