Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will work with our African friends to come out with a common document. By the end of this year, we should move ahead on the crucial issue of UN Security Council reforms,

We believe that African football is among the best in the world and very much characterized the Puma brand mentality, which is to win.

Damian Marley

You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.

Isaac Hayes

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

Isaiah Washington

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.

With a technical capacity equal to our other European recovery labs, the French location will be able to provide enhanced service to customers in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and all French-speaking African countries.

Chaka Fattah

While the Republican privatization proposition hurts everyone, African Americans and people with disabilities are at greater risk.

We wanted to create an awareness that African Americans have been in McLean County for a long time and have very much contributed to the well being of the community through their work and their involvement in the political, social and economic structure of this community.

We wanted to create a dialogue between Picasso and African art.

E. B. White

We've got 80 minutes and it could be the best 80 minutes of South Africa's rugby history for a long time. You can't make it any bigger than it is. To win tomorrow you win the Tri-Nations, you win back-to-back Tri-Nations, you go to number one in the world, you beat the All Blacks three times in succession, you can't try to make it any bigger. No South African side has won here (in Dunedin) since 1921. The more you talk about it the more you appreciate just how big this fixture is.

We also have a great prospect in educational cooperation as there have been many students from African countries in China.

We all have histories. A lot of people think that the mixing of racial groups is a relatively new thing, but what we have found in doing our research is that we are all closely related. The African and Native American histories are left out of conventional histories.

We felt that the best way to reach the community is to start during a month where you focus on African American achievements and progress. We're trying to make modern history. We're trying to keep kids in our communities off the streets.

Michael White

We feel the pulse ...You can't fake it. Even if the music is not actually on - people of New Orleans actually hear and feel what is called the second line parade rhythm. And really, that is a continuation of the African rhythm that has existed in New Orleans since the beginning. All the rhythms that went through Congo Square and came to the streets in the jazz, those rhythms sort of govern our lives.

You get to hear the true African harmony. It shows the richness in our voices.

Heyneke Meyer

At present they are the South African team with the most consistent level of play. They have a lot of momentum with the consecutive victories over the Cats and the Blues and they're playing with a lot of self-confidence.

At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness.

Richard Leakey

There should be concern expressed at every possible venue to bring pressure on both the African governments and on the international bodies to do something about this. Unless this is stopped, these species could become extinct, and it would be a terrible loss to humanity.

Niger Innis

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

Rand Paul

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

Lorraine Hansberry

I was born black and female.

Mary Landrieu

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

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.

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.

Paul Robeson

As Americans, preserving the best...

Leah Ward Sears

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

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...

I don't think the school board, certainly not the black community, is going to be easily misdirected just because I'm African American. I think that you're not going to decide that everything is fine just because I'm here. I understand that.

However, it was essential that the seconded employee retain a foreign residence to which he could return once the South African assignment was completed.

Aaron Spelling

I love giving time to gay actors, gay characters; I think it's wrong to say, You don't exist. I like diversity in shows, and I must say, the networks are really selling that, finally. African Americans, Latinos, diversity, diversity. Even love scenes, I'm pleasantly surprised that we've come that far.