Top 1200 African Quotes & Sayings - Page 15
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.
We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated.
What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.
We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.
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.
WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence
My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.
It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.
Positive social awareness among the South African educated half-caste is zero. Teaching is a mechanical job. The best way of earning a living.
I hear all the time from our audience about how it's nice to see a positive African-American role model for the younger kids out there that are watching.
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.
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.
We had South African accents. I was a vegan. I was raised without religion. I was just the weirdest kid in this small town, so I got made fun of a lot for it.
Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
The music that I listen to the most is probably world music, whether it's from African or South America or all over.
I want people to say that an African basketball player is the best player in the whole world.
I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.
I know exactly what I will do. I will go and work with the Congress of South African Students.
I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.
I started photographing amazing African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was like a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was fast becoming allergic to.
Our country craves for the trophy of the African Cup of Nations. I am craving for such a trophy in my career.
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives.
Much of the foundation of our criminal justice system is derived from slave patrols and was created when African Americans could still be bought, sold, and traded.
I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.
The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
I can sample Blink-182 but put an African vocal sample in there.
Africa has proven to produce some of the greatest athletes in the world, and it's a joy to be able to help grow that talent and create a space for African youth to learn.
Forecasts have been fundamental to mankind's journey from a small tribe on the African savannah to a species that can sling objects across the solar system with extreme precision.
Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
The marginalization of African-Americans within their own community based on sexuality is a construct that is more complex than the idea that 'blacks just hate gays.'
There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.
That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
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.
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films.
It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.
He scores goals, assists, and he's got everything that you'd ask for in a striker. We, as African players, are all proud of what Didier achieved as a player. The way he holds himself is unbelievable.
Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.
Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.
The whole idea of the first female president is not nearly as momentous or exciting as the first African-American.
When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else.
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.
Being an African-American, minority, or poor, you get in a tough situation and you don't get a fair shake.
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
