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I would love to take a cooking class from Gandhi. Maybe I could teach him how to cook, and he could teach me his message. I wouldn't mind learning how to make couscous from scratch from a North African woman, either.
Marcus Samuelsson
Love
Me
Class
Learning
Woman
Cooking
Mind
Would
Could
Take
He
Message
Make
Him
How
His
North
Scratch
Maybe
African
Either
Cook
Teach
Gandhi
We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.
Marcus Samuelsson
Food
About
Know
American
Getting
African
Story
Little
Much
European
My mother was not happy with the Afros that my friends and I emerged with - there's that crack in the book of 'Why, if a fly landed in there, he'd break his little wings trying to get out.' I was not pure dashiki, though - I was a combination of African dresses, miniskirts, tank tops, shawls, ethnic-looking earrings, sandals.
Margo Jefferson
Happy
Book
Mother
Fly
Pure
Earrings
Though
Tops
Out
Dresses
Emerged
Wings
He
Combination
Tank
His
Friends
Crack
Get
Trying
African
Break
Little
Landed
Why
I think, for a while, there was a kind of debate about whether you could bring back Negro and reclaim it, and then it was black versus African American; now I have noticed in conversation that black people will use all three terms depending on context. I don't advocate one term.
Margo Jefferson
You
Conversation
People
Debate
Will
Black
Three
Think
Back
Reclaim
Kind
About
Could
Term
Terms
Advocate
Context
Versus
American
Depending
African
African-American
Whether
While
Then
Noticed
Use
Now
Bring
A huge part of Apple profits generated in Europe, in African countries, Middle East, and India were all booked in Ireland. And I think it is a very basic principle in taxation that your profits are taxed where the profits are generated.
Margrethe Vestager
Think
Booked
East
India
Part
Countries
Principle
Were
Huge
Ireland
Very
Huge Part
Middle
African
Where
Middle East
Taxation
Taxed
Your
Europe
Apple
Basic
Profits
We do have Museums of African American Art in the United States, and there is a National Museum of Women's Art. However, I believe Latinos are best served by displaying their art next to the art of other groups, particularly North American, European, and even Asian artists.
Mari Carmen Ramirez
Art
Best
Women
National
Believe
Other
States
Latinos
Particularly
However
North
North American
American
Artists
African
African-American
Asian
Next
European
Even
Groups
Displaying
United
United States
Served
Museum
Museums
I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Life
Better
Parents
Caribbean
Member
London
Better Life
Came
Left
African
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.
Martha McSally
Hope
National
South Africa
Think
Other
Our
Soldiers
Say
Security
Would
Acceptable
Were
Cultural
South
American
National Security
Just
Africa
African
African-American
Deploy
Apartheid
American Soldiers
Found
Thing
The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.
Mary Frances Berry
Joy
Election
Leader
Overwhelming
Charismatic
Superbly
Adoring
Crowds
Support
Qualified
Democratic
American
African
African-American
Bush
Appeal
Based
Largely
My soul existed in an African vessel hundreds of years ago as the leader of a tribe, and my tribe fought for honor.
Matt Hardy
Soul
Honor
Leader
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Tribe
My Soul
Years
Years Ago
Existed
Vessel
African
Fought
I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.
Matt Kemp
Life
Needs
Me
Change
People
Better
Community
Thomas
Way
Frank
Kids
Prominent
TV
Telling
TV Shows
See
More
Better Way
Always
How
Cover
American
Did
Going
African
African-American
Your
Shows
Appearing
Baseball
Now
African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.
Matthew Desmond
Women
High
Rates
Particular
American
African
African-American
American Women
Moms
Disproportionately
I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.
Max Schneider
Day
Guitar
Back
Bit
Ukulele
Some
Piano
Picked
Drums
Up
African
Loved
Play
Started
Playing
Kept
I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.
Meg Rosoff
Doctor
Biology
Way
Those
Brought
Touching
Supposed
Trace
Bugs
Were
African
Decided
Them
Moment
Actually
Dissect
My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
Meghan Markle
Mom
Black
Half
White
Equal
Parts
Caucasian
Line
American
African
Being
African-American
Staggering
Blurred
Paints
Dad
Illuminating
There couldn't possibly be a more label-driven industry than acting, seeing as every audition comes with a character breakdown: 'Beautiful, sassy, Latina, 20s'; 'African American, urban, pretty, early 30s'; 'Caucasian, blonde, modern girl next door'. Every role has a label; every casting is for something specific.
Meghan Markle
Beautiful
Character
Girl
Every
Latina
Possibly
Seeing
Pretty
Girl Next Door
Something
More
Casting
Industry
Caucasian
Audition
Blonde
Label
Than
Role
American
Modern
African
African-American
Door
Breakdown
Urban
Next
Next Door
Acting
Sassy
Specific
Early
Being 'ethnically ambiguous', as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.
Meghan Markle
Me
Virtually
Latina
Mustard
Poster
Dressed
Varied
Could
Red
Look
Make
Industry
Audition
Yellow
Ambiguous
Role
American
Any
Closet
African
Being
African-American
Eighties
Meant
Filled
Fashionable
Donald intends to represent all the people, not just some of the people. That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims; it includes Hispanics and African Americans and Asians, and the poor and the middle-class. Throughout his career, Donald has successfully worked with people of many faiths and with many nations.
Melania Trump
People
Jews
Muslims
Some
Throughout
Faiths
His
Hispanics
American
Donald
Represent
Just
Nations
African
African Americans
Poor
Asians
Worked
Successfully
Many
Career
Christians
I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.
Mem Fox
Life
School
Made
My Life
Skin
All My Life
Color
Could
Remembered
Feel
Felt
Were
Lot
Friends
Very
African
Different
Notice
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.
Michael Eric Dyson
Music
Genius
Remember
Debate
Kid
Possibilities
High
About
Had
He
Terms
Altered
Halo
Michael
Michael Jackson
American
Jackson
Psyche
African
African-American
Capable
American Music
Chocolate
Who
Deep
Fundamentally
For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.
Michael Ignatieff
Democracy
Trouble
Every
State
Ghana
Secure
Seem
Like
Institutions
Democratic
African
Where
Zimbabwe
With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
Michael Johns
Will
Decency
Sense
Crisis
Easily
Some
Remedy
Policy
Policymakers
Foreign
Foreign Policy
American
African
Central
Rooted
Ignored
Humanitarian
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.
Michael N. Castle
Great
Struggle
Rights
Stronger
Poet
Civil
Civil Rights
Angelou
Only
Voices
Contemporary
Makes
Historian
Person
American
Maya Angelou
African
Famous
African-American
Literature
Who
Many
Activist
Believes
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.
Michael N. Castle
College
Other
State
Delaware
Delaware State
Longer
Without
American
African
African Americans
Choice
Choices
University
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Michael N. Castle
Welcome
Learning
Black
Backward
Colleges
Network
Segregation
Higher
Simply
Days
Schools
Policy
Traditional
Were
Historical
American
African
African Americans
Grew
Place
Many
Universities
I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam: I'm a college graduate. I'm African American, and I'm gay. I'm comfortable in my skin.
Michael Sam
Gay
World
College
Skin
Tell
Comfortable
Am
Michael
American
Sam
Graduate
Afraid
African
African-American
Who
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