African Quotes - page 3

Irish Americans are about as Irish as Black Americans are African. (Bob Geldof)
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic. View quote
Janice Dickinson
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. View quote
Alexis Herman
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy. View quote
Abdoulaye Wade
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. View quote
Arto Lindsay
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. View quote
Bob Cousy
In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. View quote
Bobby Scott
I am proud to be an African. View quote
Brenda Fassie
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook. View quote
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies. (Chadwick Boseman)
African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college. View quote
Chaka Fattah
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. View quote
Chaka Fattah
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance. View quote
Chaka Fattah
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. View quote
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us. View quote
Cynthia McKinney
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse. View quote
Cassandra Wilson
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. View quote
Cassandra Wilson
I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems. View quote
Donald M. Payne
As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color. (Daniel Sunjata)
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. View quote
Danny Glover
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family. View quote
Danny Glover
Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go on this course as an actor. I started to think about what values I saw in those films that I wanted to bring to my projects. View quote
Danny Glover
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. View quote
Ed Gillespie