Quotes of: African Keyword

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

I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.

Robert Griffin III

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Nicole Ari Parker

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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

Susan Rice

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

Terry Crews

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

Tim Hardaway

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

Jacob Zuma

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.

Lee Daniels

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

Mo Ibrahim

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a look!

Mitt Romney

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

Daymond John

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.

Bobby McFerrin

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.

Don Lemon

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

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

John Henrik Clarke

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Yvette Clarke

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