Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zora Neale Hurston

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

Yusef Lateef

I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

William Labov

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

Jordan Peele

Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O.

Harvey Fierstein

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X

I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.

Johnny Otis

Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.

Johnny Otis

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

Salman Rushdie

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Wayne Dyer

Begin Practicing the Intention to be Authentic & Peaceful with Everyone

Saul Williams

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.

Roseanne Barr

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Youssou N'Dour

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Walter Ulbricht

May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

Vladimir Putin

Brazil does have every right to develop its own peaceful nuclear programme.

Yani Tseng

I feel very peaceful.

Igor Shabdurasulov

In Russia a revolution has taken place, a peaceful one, but a revolution all the same.

James Wood

Golf takes me out of the crap of a sick world. Golfers are genuinely courteous in a discourteous world. Show me a guest on The Jerry Springer Show who's a golfer.

Howard Payne

Being courteous is definitely something people need to keep in mind.

Virginia Littrell

You know, I was very courteous while you were speaking.

Kip Moore

You can't live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you've got to do things in the way that you want to do them.

Willie Brown

All the rehearsals and all the preparations and all the trial runs have now paid dividends, ... San Franciscans have been performing magnificently ... road rage has been totally removed, people have been incredibly courteous to each other.

Elizabeth Gillies

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Ben Dattner

You should always be courteous and considerate. For most professionals, it's a small world. People know each other and you don't know when you'll run into them again.

Charles M. Schwab

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

Bill Bowen

We all need to be courteous towards each other as far as the hunters being courteous towards other hunters but the game is all usually on private land and there's that necessity to be courteous and considerate of the landowner and the public as a whole,