#african

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

What's really good is African drum music. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#drum #good #music #really

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. ↗

— Whoopi Goldberg

#american #i #know

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#african #african american #american #appeal #based

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book

Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#become #children #granted #grow #grow up

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #areas #aside #began #early

The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical, the reason we are doing all this is so we can respond correctly to what is reported to be a major catastrophe on the African continent. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#around #been #catastrophe #concern #continent

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#african #continent #extraordinary #gets #got

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement. ↗

— Tom Morello

#family #father #involved #kenya #met