#africa

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#african #african americans #battling #century #major

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#advancing #african #backwards #been #being

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#anything #compare #dreams #genius #imagine

Africa has no future. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#future

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#fun #i #know #lifts #place

I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#am #bring #completely #consciously #different

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#am #celtic #consciously #i #i am

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#anglo #desperately #hold #like #now

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#african american #american #asian #asian american #between

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#always #confirm #development #economic #economic development