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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.


Barack Obama


#america #barack #barrier #believing #blessed

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.


Marvin Olasky


#african #ages #aids #because #been

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


#african american #american #among #arkansas #communities

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

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

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

Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.


James Baldwin


#gay #change

You cannot buy our leaders and then sell that to us as freedom." From my new novel, Beyond Southern Africa. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...


Malik Stan Reaves


#african-literature #freedom

I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs


Les Brown


#motivantional #dreams






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