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Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
Robert Toombs
History
You
Those
Tell
Both
Never
Abstraction
Blind
Another
Deaf
Territorial
Without
Territory
Years
Question
The History Of
African
Sixty
Who
Last
We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.
Roger Ebert
White
Action
Stars
Think
Society
Too
Other
Sidekick
Way
Over
American
African
Where
African-American
Happening
Movies
Them
Asian
Might
Asian-American
Ethnic
Action Movies
Now
Two
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
Roger Milla
Heights
Other
Promote
More
Join
Football
New
Globally
Continental
Than
Hands
African
FIFA
Then
Bodies
Raise
'God Loves Uganda' is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting 'sexual immorality' and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law.
Roger Ross Williams
God
Bible
Change
Culture
Law
Values
Fighting
Christian
Immorality
Religious
Sexual
Follow
Religious Leaders
Follows
Leaders
Powerful
Missionaries
Uganda
Imported
Campaign
America
Trying
American
African
Loves
Convince
Exploration
Evangelical
Film
Right
Christian Right
I have been a lot of 'firsts' on the national political stage, including the first African American congressman from the Bay Area and one of the first Democratic Socialists in Congress.
Ron Dellums
Political
First
National
Stage
Congress
Bay
Bay Area
Area
Democratic
Been
Lot
American
African
African-American
Congressman
Including
Socialists
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet.
Ron Eglash
Mathematics
Architecture
First
Considered
Never
Thus
Primitive
Occurred
Came
Been
Discovered
Very
Africa
African
Form
Them
Might
Disorganized
Using
Europeans
Even
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why.
Ron Eglash
You
Thought
Photograph
Folks
See
Fabulous
Had
Look
Course
Aerial
Go
Wonder
Africa
African
Happened
Ask
Notice
Village
Now
Why
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
Ron Eglash
Science
High-Tech
Geometry
Traditional
Surprisingly
Often
Common
African
While
Patterns
Used
Designs
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.
Ron Eglash
Music
Too Much
Enormous
Too
More
Like
Terrain
Practices
Rock
Rock Music
Cover
Singular
Cultural
Than
American
Any
Just
African
Social
Much
Use
Reason
Why
The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.
Ron Eglash
Best
Own
Tools
Way
Out
Give
Constructing
Students
Powerful
New
Like
Identities
Get
Just
African
Then
Thing
We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make that change ourselves. Not everyone comes to that realization in their lives, but thank God Linda Brown's father felt that way.
Ruby Bridges
God
Change
Thank God
Father
Everyone
Way
Ourselves
See
Brown
Had
Step
Knew
Make
Felt
Linda
Up
Thank
American
African
African Americans
Wanted
Realization
Plate
Lives
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
Ruth First
Law
Area
Write
Study
Policy
Occupation
Began
African
Apartheid
Aside
Workings
Reserves
Early
Set
My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.
Ryan Coogler
Money
School
Rare
Parents
Tough
Clothes
Too
Back
Neighborhood
Wearing
Pretty
Had
Catholic
Catholic School
Because
Still
Came
Lot
Fit
American
African
African Americans
Which
Little
Much
Two
Michael Schultz's 'Cooley High' is a classic. Oftentimes, we don't get to see films about coming of age, especially for young African Americans.
Salim Akil
Age
Young
Films
High
See
Classic
About
Coming
Coming Of Age
Michael
Get
American
Oftentimes
African
African Americans
I don't walk around all the time thinking of myself as African American, but oftentimes in Hollywood, you are reminded of that in ways that can make you question your viability.
Salim Akil
Time
Myself
You
Walk
Thinking
Ways
Reminded
Make
Around
Question
American
Viability
Oftentimes
African
African-American
Hollywood
Your
My mom is from Ghana, and my dad is from the States, so even in my family when I was growing up, my mom said I was the American one, and my dad said I was the weird African one.
Sam Richardson
Mom
Family
Ghana
States
Weird
Said
Up
American
African
Even
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
Saul Williams
Walk
Black
Our
We Cannot
Ourselves
Some
Blackness
Simply
Idea
Reactionary
Because
Around
Proud
Continually
Walked
Africa
African
Being
Cannot
Race
Tap dancing is like... it's equivalent to music, not only for the African American community, but also for the world. Tap dancing is like language; it's like air: it's like everything else that we need in order to survive. I'm blessed and honored to be knowledgeable of the art form and to be a part of the art form.
Savion Glover
Music
Art
World
Language
Blessed
Community
Else
Air
Everything
Dancing
Honored
Everything Else
Only
Part
Like
Also
Knowledgeable
Equivalent
Tap
Art Form
Survive
American
African
Order
African-American
Form
To Survive
Need
Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together.
Shashi Tharoor
Together
Ocean
Arabs
Indian
Both
Talk
South
Iranians
Linking
Australians
African
Them
Sea
Separating
Bridge
Serve
My new mission is, and I've said this to the White House, I want the Buy America to be real. I want the Buy America to be by small businesses, African American businesses, Latino and Asian, but in particular our African American businesses who heretofore couldn't even find the front door of government contracts.
Sheila Jackson Lee
Buy
Government
White
White House
Our
Latino
Find
Be Real
Small
Small Businesses
New
Particular
Mission
House
Said
Real
Contracts
America
American
American Businesses
Front
Front Door
African
Want
African-American
Door
Asian
Who
Businesses
Even
Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
Sigmar Gabriel
Injustice
Change
Anger
Our
Those
Though
Triggers
See
Seek
About
Outrage
Generate
Glaring
Almost
Over
Also
Climate
Climate Change
Effects
Hit
Greenhouse
African
Being
Which
Ignore
Reason
Who
Appeal
Even
Hardest
Gas
Bring
Desire
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.
Sister Souljah
Me
Before
Christopher
Something
He
Columbus
Like
Well
Well Known
Known
Understand
Discovered
Clinton
Up
American
African
African Americans
Bill
Bill Clinton
Riding
My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.
Solange Knowles
History
Culture
Angel
Sun
Name
Enamored
African
Means
Expressive
You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
Solange Knowles
You
Musically
Vampire
More
Weekend
Most
References
Than
Artists
African
African-American
Who
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
Solomon Ortiz
Other
Would
Athletic
Had
Scholarships
Since
Schools
Been
Texas
Western
Conference
American
African
African Americans
Former
Them
Award
Playing
At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.
Sophie Hawley-Weld
Dance
Brown
Drumming
West
Trained
African
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