Quotes of: African Keyword

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

Quincy Jones

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

Arto Lindsay

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

Alice Walker

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

Abdoulaye Wade

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Janice Dickinson

It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans ...

Black Rednecks & White Liberals

Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unless one was another African American, when Troy Lee came in and said, "She only speaks Cantonese." "She does not. She keeps coming in and saying 'What's...

You Suck

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

Johnny Otis

I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.

The Wisdom Huntress: Anthology of Thoughts and Narrations

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

Nelson Mandela

The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.

Naomi Wolf

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls.

Leymah Gbowee

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

Lynn Swann

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Cassandra Wilson

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Chaka Fattah

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.

Ian Smith

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

Rand Paul

From 1971 to 1993, my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

Giles Foden

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched.

Henry Louis Gates

It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.

William Boyd