Quotes of: African Keyword

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

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

Cynthia McKinney

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

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

Dave Matthews

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

J. C. Watts

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

Cassandra Wilson

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

Dexter Gordon

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Leah Ward Sears

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Albert Schweitzer

Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

V. S. Naipaul

I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.

Kgalema Motlanthe

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

Mo Ibrahim

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.

Denzel Washington

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.

Queen Latifah

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.

Spike Lee

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.

Danny Glover

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

Lynn Swann