Top 1200 African Tribes Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

I am a musician by rights, and I played in Asbury Park in the old African Room in the Robert Trent Hotel next to the Albion. That was in the early '60s.

African soccer has grown to the extent that the majority of its players are playing for European teams and that is very good as they are becoming role models for the youngsters on the continent.

We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.

Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.

I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced and depicted around the world. Along the way, I'll be very fair to white people.

There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.

I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

African-Americans don't need handouts and donations; we can hire ourselves if white corporate America does business with us in a fair and equitable way.

I just always play in a South African speedo when I play for the Springboks.

We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.

In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

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

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I watch what I say.

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

In the last 20 years of collecting contemporary African art, I have been bombarded by incredible shapes and colors that I now want to translate into clothes.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

It's very hard to grow up in the African American church and for music to not be in your veins. It's just part of the fabric of who we are as people, especially black musicians.

All Hillary Clinton's done is talk to the African-Americans and to the Latinos, but they get the vote, and then they come back, they say, we'll see you in four years.

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

I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.

I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.

Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.

The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into the village, then they'll burn it down just to feel its warmth.'

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.

I said, 'Who said African American founders can't build a billion dollar company?'

The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

I'm doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

The thing is: Yes, I'm white and yes, I love African music, and I can't do anything about it.

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.

Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.