#africa

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#back #black #blacks #desire #good

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#africa #home

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#based #educationally #else #founded #industrially

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#crowned #king #look #will

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#age #because #citizen #female #i

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #america #asia #ask #britain

Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#african american #american #classical #classical music #contract

Africa will thrive. ↗

— Bono

#thrive #will

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa. ↗

— Bono

#away #cannot #christian #walk #you