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African Quotes (page 9)

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson quote: "Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he..."
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. Cassandra Wilson
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. Saul Williams
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. Bob Cousy
We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country. Gilbert Hernandez
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. Alexis Herman
Gabrielle Union quote: "Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American..."
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty. Gabrielle Union
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday. Desmond Tutu
Desmond Tutu quote: "Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the..."
Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. Desmond Tutu
My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. Cornel West
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s. Solomon Ortiz
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is. Edward James Olmos
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. Marvin Olasky
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. Robert Toombs
Olusegun Obasanjo quote: "I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on..."
I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me. Olusegun Obasanjo

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