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

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

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

Black History Month is a poignant time for the entire country, but particularly the African American community.

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

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.

Have you seen any African American athlete that appeals to the urban market actually bring that market to the MMA?

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.

I grew up in an African household, so lots of chicken, lots of rice. We ate Jollof rice, a very West African dish.

Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.

President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.

In American culture at large, but especially in African American culture, it's a sign of weakness to ask for help.

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

My soul existed in an African vessel hundreds of years ago as the leader of a tribe, and my tribe fought for honor.

I just want my daughter to grow up in a society where she feels accepted being South African, German and Ukrainian.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

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

In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.

I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.

My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.

As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.

Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population.

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.

The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.

Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Trading and religion have always been aligned together in the history of the world, and especially on the African continent.

My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

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

I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.

I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

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