#african

Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#african #american #american culture #arrived #became

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#african american #america #american #experiences #great

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth. ↗

— Tony Snow

#aid #any #earth #money #more

Nowadays, people always say, how come he's doing such young shows? But they never mention The Mod Squad. I was very proud of that show. It's the first time an African-American guy kissed a white girl. ↗

— Aaron Spelling

#always #come #doing #first #first time

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ancestry #dreamed #ever #helping #i

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

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

....the line of ill-intentional Egyptologist, equipped with a ferocious erudition , have commited their well known crime against science, by becoming guilty of a deliberate falsification of the history of humanity. Supported by the governing powers of all the Western countries , this ideology, based on a moral and intellectual swindle, easily won out over the true scientific current developed by a parallel group of Egyptologist of good will, whose intellectual uprightness and even courage cannot be stressed stronly enough. The new Egyptological ideology , born at the opportune monment, reinforced the theorectical bases of imperialist ideology. That is why it easily drowned out the voice of science, by throwing the veil of fasificacation over historical truth. This ideology was spread with the help of considerable publicity and taught the world over, because it alone had the material and financial means for its own propagation. Thus imperialism, like the prehistoric hunter, first killed the being spiritually and culturally, before trying to eliminate it physically. The negation of the history and intellectual accomplishments of Black Africans was cultural, mental murder,which preceded and paved the way for their genocide here and there in the world. ↗

— Cheikh Anta Diop

#courage