#african

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. ↗

— Michael Johns

#american #appropriately #central #crisis #decency

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#african #congress #could #going #i

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#african-american #anything #aspired #did #got

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#black #call #credit #first #first of all

I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. ↗

— Liev Schreiber

#am #australian #dialects #good #i

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#african #african american #american #american children #attend

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#african americans #always #been #closed #doors

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to. ↗

— George Tenet

#against #alert #am #asian #attack

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements. ↗

— Zola Budd

#african #feel #i #make #need

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#approve #book #bride #burnt #done