Top 1200 African Quotes & Sayings - Page 14
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
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.
Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.
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.
Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove.
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.
When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
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.
I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
We know African and Asian elephants can interbreed, and they're separated by 5 million to 6 million years.
I said, 'Who said African American founders can't build a billion dollar company?'
The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of people who are advancing the movement. I try and operate on my own terms.
HBCUs have been a bedrock of the Black community since their founding, evolving into institutions of prodigious scholarship and activism, and educating African-Americans nationwide.
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.
You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.
I'm an African-American man. I've got to live with that. I've got to be cautious everywhere I go.
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
I'm doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.
I just always play in a South African speedo when I play for the Springboks.
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.
The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.
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.
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.
There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood out.
The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.
Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies.
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .
I want to put something on the screen that audiences have never seen black actors do before, roles that will widen views of who African-Americans are.
I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.
While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.
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.
I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring.
If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.
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 am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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.
Under Armour's success depends in part on endorsements from celebrity athletes, many of whom - like Stephen Curry, the basketball star - are African-American.
The thing is: Yes, I'm white and yes, I love African music, and I can't do anything about it.
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.
The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.
Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries.
I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
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.
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.
My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of racism and made me aware of that.
A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
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.
African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
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.
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 believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
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 history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.
I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.
And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.