"Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed……" — Ned Sublette
"Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa."
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16 Quotes by Ned Sublette
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Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the…
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The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga…
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One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase,…
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The general disinclination of Spain to accept slaves from Islamicized regions of Africa during the formative years of Hispano-American society…
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In 1942 Cachao wrote a tune for Arcao, 'Rareza de Melitn,' with a memorable catchy tumbao. In 1957 Arcao recorded…
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Every farm with slaves was a slave-breeding farm. Raising slaves was mostly a cottage industry...
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A laborer might last ten years or so before expiring. But individual workers in the death camp of sugar were…
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The two biggest hits (by Machito)... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'.…
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That spirit of mockery characteristic of the guaracha was part of the mambo from the beginning.
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On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or…
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A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble…
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Miguelito, liberated from having to sing with Cugat, sounds like he just got out of jail and is letting it…
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More Africa Quotes
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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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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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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…
— Steven Biko
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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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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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