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Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up," Bannister said. "It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running. ↗


— Christopher McDougall


#africa

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face. ↗


— W.E.B. Du Bois


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However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. ↗


— William Labov


#african american #american #becoming #dialects #different

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. ↗


— William Labov


#african american #america #american #any #continental

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. ↗


— Wangari Maathai


#african #ashamed #doing #easy #educated

A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse. ↗


— Thabo Mbeki


#alternative #clear #collapse #expect #happen

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. ↗


— Ken Mehlman


#african-american #african-american community #am #candidates #committed

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong. ↗


— Ken Mehlman


#am #benefit #chairman #gave #here

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. ↗


— Wesley Morris


#america #anyone #asian #boss #certain

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗


— Vladimir Nabokov


#dreams #genius #snow #up #who






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