African Quotes

• I'm the only African here, but why does it look like you can sponsor Kennedy Davenport for 30 cents a day?

  

  BeBe Zahara Benet
  • African
  • Look Like
  • Sponsor

• Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Slave
  • African

• With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

  

  Michael Johns
  • American
  • Humanitarian
  • Foreign

• A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.

  

  Wangechi Mutu
  • Culture
  • Influence
  • Invisible

• Better governance helps realize the full potential of the many young Africans who are currently giving their families' savings to criminal networks and risking their lives in the vast expanses of the Sahara or Mediterranean instead of starting their own businesses and using their lives to benefit their families and communities.

  

  Miroslav Lajcak
  • Communities
  • Businesses
  • Instead

• It will largely depend on how successful the African governments are in limiting the amounts of second-hand imports and how price-competitive new vehicles can be with their tariffs.

  

  Craig Parker
  • Governments
  • Imports
  • Tariffs

• When will the African people unite? When will the African people come together? Europeans, Americans getting stronger every day, And there is disunity among the African people

  

  Majek Fashek
  • People
  • Stronger
  • Europeans

• In ancient times "African" and "Ethiopian" meant the same thing: A Black

  

  Chancellor Williams
  • Black
  • Ancient
  • Ethiopian

• Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

  

  Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
  • Fighting
  • President
  • Italian

• “Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.”

  

  Afua Cooper
  • Story
  • Slavery
  • African

• What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

  

  Morris Dees
  • Europe
  • Enforcement
  • Plantations

• Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

  

  Erik King
  • Miracle
  • Everyone
  • Minutes

• I would rather be a member of this Afrikan race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

  

  Edward Wilmot Blyden
  • Greek
  • Member
  • African

• Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.

  

  Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
  • Football
  • Difficult
  • Encouraging

• God brought African slaves to America so that their descendants would know freedom.

  

  Ezola B. Foster
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Slaves

• I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day.

  

  Nipsey Hussle
  • President
  • Majors
  • Historic

• I was born in Evanston, about three blocks away from the Chicago border. My mother, at the time, was finishing her Ph.D. in African History at Northwestern University. Soon after my birth, my parents split, and my father moved to Wicker Park, which is on the north side of the city.

  

  Rashid Johnson
  • Parents
  • Moved
  • Border

• I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • President
  • Generation
  • African

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