First African Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

• 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
• Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team. — Bob Cousy
• 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
• 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
• America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King. — Bobby Seale
• 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.
• 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
• 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:

• 1 First African Quote by Feisal Abdul Rauf
• 1 First African Quote by Harvey Fierstein
• 1 First African Quote by Jesse Jackson
• 1 First African Quote by Rush Limbaugh
• 1 First African Quote by Michelle Obama
• 1 First African Quote by Bobby Seale
• 1 First African Quote by John W. Rogers, Jr.
• 1 First African Quote by Cindy Sheehan
• 1 First African Quote by Frank Rich
• 1 First African Quote by Mary J. Blige
• 1 First African Quote by Bob Cousy
• 1 First African Quote by Wole Soyinka
• 1 First African Quote by Wangari Maathai
• 1 First African Quote by Mitch McConnell
• 1 First African Quote by Bobby McFerrin
• 1 First African Quote by Henry Louis Gates