First African Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration…
— Mary J. Blige
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Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
— Bob Cousy
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity,…
— Wole Soyinka
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I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the…
— Wangari Maathai
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America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.
— Mitch McConnell
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Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and…
— Bobby McFerrin
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My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.
— Henry Louis Gates
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect…
— Harvey Fierstein
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Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a…
— Jesse Jackson
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Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.
— Rush Limbaugh
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Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and…
— Michelle Obama
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The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.
— Bobby Seale
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My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law,…
— John W. Rogers, Jr.
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I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American…
— Cindy Sheehan
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As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions…
— Frank Rich
Who Wrote These First African Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 First African Quotes as follows: