#african

I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

#african #drums #guitar #harmonica #i

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#be strong #better #does #example #for example

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#women #love

That was out of line.” “No, it wasn’t, querida.” He smiled, the devastating smile she found irresistible. “You’re my wife, and you do have an amazing mouth. ↗

— Delaney Diamond

#delaney-diamond #interracial-romance #the-arrangement #men

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American. ↗

— Kenneth Edmonds

#based #because #believe #good #good script

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#african-american #african-american women #aids #american women #cases

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#asian #bad #countries #european #good

Seven years ago, my father and I realized that our relationship was extremely unique, especially in the African-American community. He raised me to not only understand the fundamentals of basketball and to try to be a player with a high basketball IQ, but he wanted me to understand that my image and my name meant more than stats. ↗

— Allan Houston

#african-american community #ago #basketball #community #especially

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans. ↗

— James Meredith

#african americans #enemy #greatest #liberal #whites

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #first #i #myself #patriot