"I found there's a fairly blatant racism in……" — Dave Matthews
"I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere."
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108 Quotes by Dave Matthews
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Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out...
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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