Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khaled Hosseini

American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.

Li Keqiang

China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.

Angela Davis

But at the same time you can't...

Angela Davis

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

We haven't conquered the moon. It's a planet the size of Africa and we've been to six spots the size of a large backyard or farm or ranch. That's not exploring. That's touching.

Those guys are legends in South African sport and it is fantastic for me to have done something that they have done.

Bill Bradley

You have said that I am going to destroy Medicaid without saying what I plan to replace it with. (Your assertions) that my plan would hurt African Americans and Latinos have offended me,

Jonathan Moyo

You know, you find in him the lasting connection between the struggle which the African fought to liberate themselves and the African way into the future, especially now as they are struggling for economic emancipation.

Rush Limbaugh

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).

Tim Cahill

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

Usher

I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans.

Stephen Ambrose

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Richard Attias

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

Michael Emerson

It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites.

Rand Paul

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

Raven-Symone

I'm an American. I'm not an African-American; I'm an American.

Sister Souljah

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

Snoop Dogg

That's how we do it in the black...

Nina Simone

There's no excuse for the young...

Michelle Alexander

Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time.

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the...

Mark Steyn

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

Niger Innis

Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.

Mary Landrieu

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

Lorraine Hansberry

I was born black and female.

James Meredith

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

Lower inflation at the start of the year suggests that South Africa will be able to take geopolitical risks in its stride. At this point, even the rise in oil is not a huge concern.

J. M. Coetzee

Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

Ethan Zohn

Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa are the heroes in their community.

Kenneth Kaunda

Seven hundred and fifty billion dollars is the annual aggregate income of African Americans. That economic potential needs to be harnessed for Africa's development and to create expanded economic opportunities for African people worldwide.

Yoko Ono

So many people have approached me and said, 'Can I do a musical of John,' ... It's a very simple idea, you know - wow, a musical of John! But I've said no. This time, I said yes, because I liked the idea of having these different actors playing John. Because in the years after John's passing, John has transformed into something else. People in Asia think of him as their hero. People in Africa think of him as their hero. He was a hero for the whole world, and not just a white hero. So it's great to have a black performer singing as John. For me, this play is a revolution, a quiet revolution.

Mick Fleetwood

So I'm known-and actually so I'm unknown, you know, or relatively unknown, such as the stuff in Africa and the whole experience I had there.

Kym Whitley

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.