I have always been fond of the West African proverb: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
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The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
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African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place
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I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.
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The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow
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It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people.. It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi
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The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the A
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y
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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
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Right now, it is it is almost. It is almost uhh, <br/>IMPOSSIBLE for you not to see how strong rap has gotten<br/>Y'knowhatI'msayin, it's it's like umm.<br/>our our brothers and sisters, our youths, and some of our adults<br/>their ear is PINNED to rap music right now<br/>And if you really wanna get our message out<br/>and really wanna start teachin, we need to start doin that<br/>We we really need to start usin, our methods, y'knowhatI'msayin?<br/>The Last Poets did it with poetry<br/>And uhh, and and. Even in our history<br/><br/>from a ancient Afl- African civilization<br/>poets went from village to village<br/>And that's how, stories and messages and lessons were taught<br/>Y'knowhatI'mssayin, and so like you say, history repeats itself<br/>And so. It it was, it was. At it was, y'know obvious<br/>It was, pick it up, y'know?<br/>Bein the race that we are, bein the strong race that we are<br/>We picked it up, we picked up those positive, those positive vibes<br/>and we started rappin and so<br/>I think it is, it's a very good medium too
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I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
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We decided to celebrate the Voting Rights Act by having an African American run in every ward in the city.
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We will be testing samples collected for surveillance on the African continent.
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Chad is very eager to see the international community, in particular the African Union, settle this crisis.
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The thing that shocked me personally was that they're trying to shift and change goal posts. If this is the case, we African leaders might as well go home and find other methods of developing ourselves.
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A major victory for the South African government -- and the rest of the continent -- over the drugs companies.
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It was commissioned by Center Theatre Group's youth program,.. They wanted something based on storytelling, something suitable for whole families. It was supposed to incorporate Br'er Rabbit tales. But once I got into it, I thought, 'Forget Br'er Rabbit. Use human beings.' There are so very, very many African, African American, Caribbean and slave narratives to work with.
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But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stories for holidays and for weddings and for horrible events.
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We want to celebrate the wondrous legacy of jazz and African American culture that previously existed along the U Street corridor. That's slowly coming back into its own
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I believe his work in Black Psychology will influence future generations. His contribution to building the Department of African American Studies will remain and inspire as long as the department exists.
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I don't want this to sound like everybody in Highland Park is racist. My staff was primarily African American and I never had any problems with them.
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