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I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.
John Legend
People
Those
Intriguing
Able
Inspiring
Studied
Studies
Powerful
Read
Narratives
Always
Were
Escape
American
African
African-American
Stories
Found
Slave
Slavery
In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.
John Lewis
Great
Voting
Minority
Past
Other
Great Majority
Percentage
Cast
Voters
Votes
Majority
American
Ohio
African
African-American
In The Past
Process
Places
Means
Large
Large Percentage
Early
The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.
John McWhorter
Great
School
Great Britain
Those
About
Hybrid
Absolutely
Spoke
Alongside
Learn
Because
Dialects
Were
West
Very
America
Contribution
Often
African
Interesting
Regional
Worked
Languages
Who
Exposed
Servants
Actually
Britain
Slaves
Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.
John McWhorter
Language
Black
Example
Just Be
Ways
Some
Simpler
Adult
Drops
For Example
Learned
Because
Am
Than
Gets
Often
Just
African
Standard
English
Slaves
There's this guy: his name, Sedik Ali. He's like the African Kurosawa. You know how Kurosawa does stuff from feudal Japan? This guy does the feudal system of Africa.
John Singleton
You
Ali
System
Guy
He
Stuff
Name
Like
Know
Does
How
His
Kurosawa
Feudal
Africa
African
Japan
There is a twinge of abandonment that comes with being a member of the African Diaspora. But 'Black Panther' fearlessly introduces and then complicates this and other deeply held albeit rarely expressed emotions; that indeed is what makes this film so profoundly innovative.
Joy Reid
Emotions
Abandonment
Black
Other
Panther
Innovative
Indeed
Member
Rarely
Fearlessly
Makes
African
Being
Then
Held
Expressed
Film
Deeply
Albeit
Profoundly
An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward.
Joyce Banda
Woman
Fear
Nothing
Skin
Positively
Carries
Unbearable
Brought
Push
How
Up
Trained
Move
Move Forward
African
Heavy
Anyway
Use
Forward
Now
Thick
Thick Skin
Loads
I want you to know that I don't have any right, Malawi has no right to stop any president from coming to an African Union summit because that is an African Union meeting.
Joyce Banda
You
President
Meeting
Summit
Know
Because
Coming
Any
Stop
African
Want
Union
Right
I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s.
Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Mom
Met
Heritage
Complex
Both
Were
American
Movement
African
African-American
Dad
Activists
Jewish
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it.
Justin Cartwright
Education
People
Result
Problems
Too Much
Black
Too
Bit
One Of The Problems
About
Deliberately
Could
Write
Allowed
Know
Well
Read
Said
Doing
Were
Very
Shocking
African
Apartheid
Much
Useful
Working-Class
If Franschhoek has a fault, it is in the lavish refurbishment of wine farms and estates which has reached absurd proportions. Some, like Graf Delaire Estate, are brand new, with jewellery shops, indoor streams, and very high-end lodges for rent at prices not many South Africans can afford.
Justin Cartwright
Fault
Wine
Lavish
Some
High-End
Proportions
Prices
Absurd
Indoor
New
Like
Reached
Rent
South
Very
Brand
Brand New
Afford
Shops
African
Estate
Estates
Which
Farms
Many
Streams
Jewellery
Franschhoek - French Corner - is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of what life could be. The small town is enclosed by wild mountains, at this time of year blue and dusty green.
Justin Cartwright
Life
Time
Year
Mountains
Corner
Wild
Kind
Small
Could
Small Town
Town
Sophisticated
French
Alternative
Enclosed
South
Version
Green
Blue
Dusty
African
Place
Which
Fantasy
Serve
Music is an expression of who you are, and - at least in that sense - I think I epitomize Black Lives Matter. I'm a big black man, and I'm easily misunderstood. Before I started wearing these African clothes, people would assume that I was a threat and that it was O.K. to be violent toward me.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Me
You
Man
People
Matter
Black
Big
Before
Clothes
Sense
Think
Assume
Easily
Would
Threat
Wearing
Toward
Misunderstood
Least
African
Who
Expression
Lives
Started
Violent
The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
Kandyse McClure
Home
People
Mother
Opportunity
Old
Girl
Long
First
Big
Met
South Africa
Stage
Meet
Chant
Dream
Vancouver
City
Dreamed
Given
Pursue
Could
Perform
Name
She
Big City
South
South African
Left
Very
Role
Africa
African
Being
After
Who
Star
Ever
Her
Played
We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.
Katherine Dunham
Time
Will
Hoped
Indian
Area
Had
Haitian
Another
Always
Exhibit
Intend
American
Same
Just
Same Time
African
African-American
Room
Appalachian
Oriented
Keep
Originally
Necessarily
There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.
Keegan-Michael Key
Playwright
He
Named
South
South African
Very
Did
Any
African
Famous
Ever
Play
African Americans are concerned about the scourge of abortion in their community, and respond to related facts and figures. Large majorities agree that every life should have a chance, regardless of race, socioeconomic status or circumstance.
Kellyanne Conway
Life
Abortion
Community
Every
Related
Circumstance
Respond
Status
About
Facts
Concerned
Scourge
American
African
African Americans
Regardless
Race
Should
Figures
Large
Agree
Chance
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
Kenny Leon
Dreams
Me
Made
First
President
Our
President Obama
Obama
Stuff
Became
American
African
African-American
Which
American President
My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
Kenya Barris
Mom
Me
Rights
Civil
Civil Rights
Give
Give Me
Through
Name
Because
African
Wanted
Dad
Kenya
If you were asking me how it is to be a Muslim in America, it's much harder to be a North African in France than to be a foreigner here in America.
Kenza Fourati
Me
You
France
Muslim
How
Were
Foreigner
Than
North
America
African
Much
Asking
Harder
Here
The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of people who are advancing the movement. I try and operate on my own terms.
Kerry James Marshall
History
People
Problem
Political
Try
Own
Solution
My Own
Never
Advancing
Terms
Operate
Hands
Movement
The History Of
African
Movements
Who
It's funny because, growing up, I found inspiration from watching Steffi Graf and Amanda Coetzer, a South African who was in the top 10 for many years. Oh, and then there's someone I've gotten to know over the last few years: Martina Navratilova.
Kevin Anderson
Funny
Few
Top
Someone
Martina
Inspiration
Over
Know
Because
Amanda
Gotten
Years
South
South African
Up
Oh
African
Then
Who
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Last
Watching
Last Few Years
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.
Khaled Hosseini
Time
Me
You
Culture
School
Girl
Immigrants
High
High School
Guys
Had
Got
Hispanics
Very
American
Graduated
African
African Americans
Grips
By The Time
In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need to think and talk about race through a lens that looks at gender or think and talk about feminism through a lens that looks at race.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Generation
Women
Political
Gender
Feminism
Every
Think
Sphere
About
Through
Talk
Looks
Been
Intellectual
Articulated
American
African
African-American
Race
Lens
Moment
Who
American Women
Need
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
Kiran Ahluwalia
Music
World
Husband
Jazz
Too
Collection
Indian
Because
Italian
Lot
Lots
Greek
African
World Music
Portuguese
I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion.
Kodak Black
Love
Women
Complexion
Skin
Like
American
Just
African
African-American
American Women
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