I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Then we must consider what an African would want to do with the money to” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation… — idowu koyenikan Copy Share Image
“There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields… — Djimon Hounsou Copy Share Image
“My African maiden,you are beautiful! You have not grown to just be a wife;stand out and be outstanding.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
I am sure that it wouldn’t be in the long-term interests of China which would continue to depend on these African resources… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
“When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
“Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
“Someone is pounding on a door within you and hoping for an answer. They want to tell us the secret tale of… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
“Give An African Child Or Adult A Enabled Environment And Proper Facilities Like In The West And See The Many Great Wonders… — Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo Copy Share Image
African cinema doesn't have an African industry at all and that's where our problem arises. We come to all of these initiatives… — Jihan El-Tahri Copy Share Image
I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American.… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
