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People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.
African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.
Gay Africans must speak up and let everyone know they are there, they have always been there, and that they are not going away.
In May 1961, South Africa was to be declared a Nationalist Republic. There was a white referendum, but no African was consulted.
I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
We need to offer Africans the alternatives to terrorist recruitment that their own governments cannot. This includes, yes, jobs.
There is, for me, as a black woman, as an African woman, a sense of possibility in America that I don't feel when I'm in Europe.
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
Tracing, freezing, and return of stolen assets has proved in many cases to be exceptionally difficult for most African countries.
I realized that you cannot think European and want to write or create something African. You have to think African in everything.
Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.
My stepmom's from Somalia, my baby sister is African American, my dad was always English, I'm a white man... You may have noticed.
My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.
If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.
We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.
I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother's fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful family.
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.
My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.
We all know that we Africans just win medals in middle and long distance, and walking in their footsteps makes me feel proud, you know.
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
I was raised on African music, Harry Belafonte, and the Boston Pops. Then I got a dose of soul and hip-hop. I related to it immediately.
The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves - at times for decades.
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.
If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!
I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.
Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.