#africa

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement. ↗

— Tom Morello

#family #father #involved #kenya #met

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

— Constance Baker Motley

#african #african americans #battling #century #major

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

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

#african americans #athletic #award #been #conference

Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. ↗

— Bob Pettit

#bush #extracts #heal #many #sick

To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#am #been #come #determination #games

All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#africa #behind #even #get #lines

There is always something new out of Africa. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#always #new #out #something

Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face. ↗

— Faith Ringgold

#around #because #carry #coming #face