#africa

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds. ↗

— Elspeth Huxley

#country #cruel #grinds #heart #into

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. ↗

— Spike Lee

#african american #alone #american #american culture #black

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#gives #great #hope #strength

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#african-american #american people #areas #i #know

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#india #more #people #poor #poor people

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#age #beings #continue #day #human

Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und mächtig, nicht geschichtslos sondern geschichtlich, nicht verdammt, sondern unschuldig, nicht ein blinder Zufall der Evolution, sondern fortschrittliche Erfüllung eines Schicksal. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#imagination

Some people talk of Africa being a continent cursed not blessed with minerals, but the real curse is the leaders and politicians of Africa ↗

— Peter Mutanda

#inspirational #inspirational

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#african-american #amp #any #culture #did

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#allowed #am #because #colonial #could