Black Quote by Henry Louis Gates

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies…

— Henry Louis Gates

People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and…

— Miriam Makeba

I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.

— Muhammad Ali

there are many Africas.

— Beryl Markham

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about,…

— Larry Rivers

If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people who migrated from Africa.…

— Runoko Rashidi

My knowledge of my ancestry, like a lot of black people not living in Africa today, is very vague.

— Malachi Kirby

When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in…

— Elif Batuman

We are guys from North Hollywood singing about Africa. What do we know about Africa?

— Steve Lukather

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa...

— Beryl Markham

As much as I'm a black person from America, I'm a black person from Africa, too.

— Nipsey Hussle

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators…

— Henry Louis Gates