Top 1200 African Tribes Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served by that particular institution.

This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms.

If you've ever left a bag of clothes outside the Salvation Army or given to a local church drive, chances are that you've dressed an African.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

Unfortunately, some of the African leaders employ various nefarious means to remain in office far beyond what their constitutions permit.

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

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations.

In my recent travels into African countries and others, I was impressed by the importance of having a working unity among all peoples, black as well as white.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money. But that's especially true if you don't have anybody to guide you.

While we Brits love a curry, the French get their spicy kicks from the culinary traditions bestowed by their North African population.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Joseph Kony is hiding somewhere in the Central African Republic. He is no longer a threat. We have already punished him. We provide our own safety.

I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to it immediately.

We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It comes from our ancestors being slaves.

I think we all have a piece of wild in us that we want to protect. It was a very organic choice for me to support this organization [African Wildlife Foundation].

I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.

When I started Giants of Africa, I envisioned providing African youth access to the game and empowering them to achieve their greatest potential.

In today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.

The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.

I just want my daughter to grow up in a society where she feels accepted being South African, German and Ukrainian.

I would flip this the other way and say over 90 percent of African-Americans voted against Donald Trump.

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.

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

In 1985, I was arrested, along with my mother and brother, Martin III, in a protest against apartheid at the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C.

African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have to question who you are, what you are and whether you have the courage to be who you are.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

Michael Schultz's 'Cooley High' is a classic. Oftentimes, we don't get to see films about coming of age, especially for young African Americans.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.

It hasn't been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these problems - at least at the state level - electing an African-American.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a white action hero gets to do.

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.

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: `The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

I get quite bemused by the comments made about what I wear because, for African people, how you dress is very important.

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook and a little bit of cleaning.

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others.

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

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

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

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.