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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #african




It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.


William Labov


#african #african american #american #appears #century

There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.


Wesley Snipes


#action movie #african-american #bringing #cat #coming

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.


Lewis Tappan


#among #orderly #peaceable #prisoners #themselves

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea.


Mick Taylor


#ancestry #back #enough #far #go

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.


Conan O'Brien


#being #called #finding #held #location

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.


Alicia Keys


#buds #father #i #italian #mother

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.


Leah Ward Sears


#african-american women #american women #direction #even #faith

Whose little boy are you?


James Baldwin


#black #church #coming-of-age #epiphany #god

Pregressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation


Angela Y. Davis


#author #emancipation #art

Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.


Jacqueline Delange


#art






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