African Quotes

How many African American champions have there been over the course of WWE's history? It's something that was the elephant in the room. Nobody wanted to talk about it, but it was important for us to address it. Kofi Kingston
History Important Address About Something Nobody Over Talk Course WWE How Been American African African-American Wanted Room Us Many Elephant Champions
I always said if I had a platform to speak, I am going to speak. I feel it is just important, not only for African American-related things but world things in general. Kyle Kuzma
Speak World Important General Only Had Feel Said Always Am Going Just African Platform Things
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent. LZ Granderson
People Black King Just African Holiday Descent Dr Dr. King
This is quite public knowledge. The South African government has said they're doing it. They've started seizing their first couple hundred farms. Lauren Southern
Government Knowledge First Hundred Seizing Couple Said Doing South South African Quite African Public Farms Started
My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion. Lee Ritenour
Son Recording Has-Been Record Percussion Studies He Studying Since Drummer Also Drums Been Very Quite Just African Interested Turned Four
Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans. Leila Aboulela
Enough Arab Arabs African Sudan
I, too, am interested in identity and Islam, which is what people expect of us. But one must not write what is expected. It's important for North African writers to show they have other things to say. Leila Slimani
People Important Islam Too Other Say Must Write Writers Identity Am Expect North Expected African Which Interested Us Show Things
It was cool to play an African princess who's the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young girls can feel smart, too. Letitia Wright
Hope World Smart Girl Young Too Never Feel Smartest Princess African Young Girls Happens Cool Whole Play
You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! Lewis Tappan
You Joy Language Own Address Comprehend Color Could Heard Friendly May African Manifested Them Poor Manner Imagine
I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls. Leymah Gbowee
Journey Girl Wish Tiny African Little Capacity Fulfill Now
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. Liev Schreiber
Good Some Am Dialects South South African Australian Very African Reason Two
In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population. Lin Biao
People World Cause Overwhelming Revolution Analysis Final Latin Latin American Struggles Majority Make Make Up Hinges Up Revolutionary American African Asian American People Who Whole Population
I am inspired by Nelson Mandela. I was a volunteer teacher in South Africa during apartheid, where I witnessed his success liberating black South Africans. Lisa Madigan
Success Teacher Black South Africa Liberating Nelson Nelson Mandela Inspired Volunteer Witnessed Am His South Mandela Africa African Where Apartheid
People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop. Little Richard
Music People Drive Same Thing Say Insane Kids Would About Voodoo Rock Said Always Hip-Hop Roll Same Just Flash African Used Thing Pan
I was drawn to West Africa. I did listen to a bunch of different styles of African music, and there was something about the percussion and the drums of West Africa, and the energy, that felt so cinematic to me. Ludwig Goransson
Music Me Energy Cinematic Drawn About Something Percussion Drums Felt Styles West Bunch Did Listen Africa African Different Different Styles
I traveled to a library in South Africa called ILAM (International Library of African Music), which has a collection of about 500 different instruments that don't really exist anymore. Ludwig Goransson
Music Library South Africa Collection About Instruments Exist South Africa African Different Anymore Which Really International Traveled
It was very challenging, trying to add an orchestra on top of these traditional African rhythms, because as soon as you add any kind of melody or chords over it, it stops feeling African. Ludwig Goransson
You Feeling Add Top Melody Kind Soon Over Over It Because Traditional Very Trying Any Orchestra Stops African Rhythms Chords Challenging
When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music. Lykke Li
Music Suicide Seven Everything Tribe Tribe Called Quest Joe Madonna Velvet She Underground Been Quest Very Michael Michael Jackson Jackson Six African Little Used
My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. Lynn Nottage
Art Remember Mother Long Parents Gone Too Collectors Consumers Always Were Been Lines American African African-American Theater Avid Paintings Activist Marching
If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white. Lynn Nottage
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I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media. Lynn Nottage
Women Way Those Telling Find Remain Mainstream Mainstream Media Particularly Committed Often African Stories Media
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do. Madonna Ciccone
People Problem Skin Think Adopted Fact Color Lot Than Child African Different Different Color Who
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. Mahalia Jackson
Music Gospel Music Jazz Say Know Although Gospel African Experts Rhythms Origin
Schoolkids - black and white - would call me Kunta Kinte as a cuss. If ever my hair was particularly messy, if ever I looked scruffy at school, I would be called Kunta Kinte. My first impression was that it was bad to be African and bad to be associated with him. Malachi Kirby
Me School Black Black And White Hair First White Bad Would Would-Be First Impression Looked Particularly Call Him Messy Impression African Cuss Ever Associated
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir. Mandy Patinkin
Music School Side Synagogue High Temple High School Only Joined House Mostly Gospel Boy South Chicago Up South Side American Listen African African-American Grew Then Choir
It's troubling that by eliminating weekend voting hours, the state of Ohio specifically banned a popular voting time of choice for minorities. In Cuyahoga County, which I represent, 56 percent of weekend voters in 2008 were African American while adult African Americans comprise 28 percent of the county population. Marcia Fudge
Time Voting State Minorities Percent Weekend Adult Troubling Voters Hours County Were American Represent Ohio African African Americans African-American Banned Which While Choice Popular Population Specifically
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