Top 1200 African Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for everything that they've got in this country.
What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.
The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.
Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone and the machete.
I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change.
They [African-American community] have been abused and used in order to get votes by Democrat politicians, because that's what it is. They've controlled these communities for up to 100 years.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.
No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.
It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.
The U.K. wants and needs closer trading partnerships with African nations - and Africa needs much more capital.
People used to call me names, so my mom had this beautiful African lady come talk to me.
My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
Mandela was chosen as a symbol of the South African struggle, and he did that great. But I wasn't just happy for him. I was happy for the people.
Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
It was hugely helpful to me, being South African. I have never felt uncomfortable in posh society because I don't see what it is that I'm meant to be bowing the knee about.
Have you seen any African American athlete that appeals to the urban market actually bring that market to the MMA?
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.
I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school.
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.
I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.
Mahatma Gandhi went from Africa to India, and once India won its freedom, it helped African countries to get their independence.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
We're going to bring jobs back to this country. I think that is one of the reasons I'm going to do well with the African-Americans and Hispanics.
My soul existed in an African vessel hundreds of years ago as the leader of a tribe, and my tribe fought for honor.
There's very good evidence that the average cat in Europe has a larger environmental footprint in its lifetime than the average African.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.
I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.
And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
I feel like kids in general, not just African-American kids, are influenced by what they see, both positive and negative.
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.
Among all researchers who have worked in the African field, I consider myself one of the most fortunate because of the privilege of having been able to study the mountain gorilla.
I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.
I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable.
I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.
There's this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman - and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child.
I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.
One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics.
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.
