“The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and… — Utkarsh Ambudkar Copy Share Image
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent,… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that. — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life! — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
I'm trying to tell you that there's a new wave on the continent. A new wave of openness and democratization in which,… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great,… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman. — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I love my heritage! I have my mother, who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally an American writer according to the whims and… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea — Mick Taylor Copy Share Image
We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what… — Toyin Odutola Copy Share Image
Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I make up cassettes all the time - to take on the road with me - a song from this album, a… — Robert Palmer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
The African mind has a lot to contribute, not only to world understanding of the arts, but to an understanding of spiritualism.… — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no… — Vivica A. Fox Copy Share Image
“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be… — Rebecca Enonchong Copy Share Image
As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the… — Kamaru Usman Copy Share Image
