"I am not an African. I am an…" — Albert Murray
"I am not an African. I am an American."
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11 Quotes by Albert Murray
Albert Murray has 11 quotes on this site.
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are…
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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the…
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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more…
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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter…
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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is…
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans,…
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A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or…
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an…
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for…
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More African Quotes
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
— Joyce Banda
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
— Dave Barry
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
— Xavier Becerra
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I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell…
— Glenn Beck
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
— Larry Bird
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to…
— Mary J. Blige
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
— Bono
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
— Bono
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
— Bono
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