534 African Quotes for You to Enjoy

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for life. These men are part of a growing undercaste - not class, caste - a group of people who are permanently relegated, by law, to an inferior second-class status. Michelle Alexander

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The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it. Michelle Alexander

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I think Pakistan was always a destination where it was hard to come and win. I was the coach of the South African team which came here in 2007. We won the Test and one-day series and that was a massive win and achievement because not many sides had come and won in Pakistan. Mickey Arthur

Achievement Destination Win Think Sides Had Come Massive Because Always Test Came South South African Won African Where Which Coach Hard Team Many Series Pakistan Here

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves. Miriam Makeba

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Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance. Misty Copeland

Perseverance Women Theatre Few Classical Takes Make Ballet Lot American African Being African-American American Women Company Level

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. Mo Ibrahim

Aggressive Development Most Advocate Integration Bank African Regional

Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries. Mo Ibrahim

Thrown Countries Dollars African Billions Billions Of Dollars

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well. Mo Ibrahim

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Nobody can come and develop Africa on behalf of Africans. Mo Ibrahim

Develop Nobody Come Behalf Africa African

In the long, nonillustrious history of white people pilfering African American culture, have I just perpetrated that? I'm motivated by a love for the music and by a love of the performances, and I really hope I haven't done anything bad. Moby

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Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans. Montesquieu

Too Much Too Minds Weak Weak Minds Exaggerate Wrong Done African Much

I like African music but also R&B, rap, alternative rock, and classic. Mousa Dembele

Music Rap Classic Like Also Alternative Rock African

I notice I have both African and Belgian characteristics. Mousa Dembele

Characteristics Both African Notice

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong anymore to anyone, that I'm not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one. Muhammad Ali

Beautiful People Free Master White Gave Back Clay Name Am African Anymore Anyone Chose Now Belong Slave

Just knowing the history of WWE, I know there haven't been a lot of African Americans that have come through and been successful. But there are women who have done amazing and inspired me. Naomi

You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm. Nas

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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. Nat King Cole

Jazz Because Am American Artist African Famous African-American

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February. Natasha Trethewey

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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities. Natasha Trethewey

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The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? Neel Mukherjee

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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. Neil Gaiman

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