Afros Quotes
30 quotes by 20 authors
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
— Ida B. Wells
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
— Ida B. Wells
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My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
— Donald Byrd
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I've had every haircut you could possibly imagine: mullet, tail, dreadlocks, afro, crew cut. It's always been an expression of who I am.
— Marc Forgione
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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
— Grace Jones
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America…
— Malcolm X
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If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not -…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
— Ida B. Wells
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Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim…
— Rick Riordan
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Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels -…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Afros Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 30 Afros Quotes as follows: