#african

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#allowing #comedy #folk #freedom #glorious

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#any #bottom #bottom line #continuously #documented

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african #african american #american #behavior #behavioral

I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#become #believe #i #i think #nations

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#because #clearly #european #i #intellectual

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people. ↗

— Viola Davis

#accents #accessible #adjust #african #african americans

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#african americans #ever #highest #history #homes

I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! ↗

— Kerry Washington

#afforded #african-american #college #could #ellis