African Quote by Albert Murray Download Open image “I am not an African. I am an American.” — Albert Murray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare African Am American I am
As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too. — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that. — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American. — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist. — Terry Crews Copy Share Image
Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
There's no question that I'm African-American. OK? I'm a black man. We're not going to escape that. — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet,… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited free-association. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who is… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this… — Yvette Clarke 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 get it… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African… — Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi Copy Share Image
Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
