African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.
Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.
How much does an elephant weigh?
Never complete. Never whole. White skin and an African soul.
There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that.
I learnt years ago not to use logic to understand African politics.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo.
I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.
My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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.
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
I speak African. I can even speak Italian.
You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
