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I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life. -- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
African-American people adore President Obama. -- Julianne Malveaux
African problems should have African solutions. -- Jacob Zuma
I am proud to be an African. -- Brenda Fassie
What's really good is African drum music. -- Fiona Apple
I have a lot of African-American friends. -- Larry Pressler
I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent. -- Nigel Dennis
That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires. -- Rush Limbaugh
Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama. -- Julianne Malveaux
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series -- Aberjhani
I get overwhelming support in the African-American community. -- Joe Biden
You cannot sing African music in proper English -- Fela Kuti
I actually spoke in an African-American church yesterday. -- Howard Dean
I've been doing African dance all my life. -- Naima Adedapo
I speak African. I can even speak Italian. -- Frank Bruno
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov
In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died. -- Peter Diamandis
I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-ÂAmerican. -- Barack Obama
I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems. -- Donald M. Payne
The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King. -- Bobby Seale
Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans. -- James Meredith
The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. -- Lewis Tappan
We haven't seen any African country talk about recession. -- Oscar N. Onyema
African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints. -- Mo Ibrahim
Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work. -- Richard Attias
Hillary Clinton's done a terrible job for the African-Americans. -- Donald Trump
The most beautiful women in the world were African. -- Martin Cruz Smith
We are African in origin and American in birth. -- Timothy Thomas Fortune
I am not an African. I am an American. -- Albert Murray
There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics. -- Robert Plant
A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans. -- Rush Limbaugh
African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded. -- Jill Scott
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty. -- Gabrielle Union
I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. -- Tracey Ullman
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative. -- Pam Grier
Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. -- Henry Rollins
We're all African-American, so we're all influenced by each other. -- Malaak Shabazz
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American. -- Larry Bird
I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon, -- Kendrick Lamar
The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American. -- Whoopi Goldberg
African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance. -- Wole Soyinka
South African rugby doesn't have to stand back for anyone. -- Rudolph Straeuli
Never complete. Never whole.White skin and an African soul. -- Michelle Frost
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess. -- Julianne Malveaux
I'm an American. I'm not an African-American; I'm an American. -- Raven-Symone
I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan. -- Serj Tankian
The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop. -- Bernie Sanders
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry. -- Lance Reddick
The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged. -- Chantal Zabus
The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. -- Mary Landrieu
In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity. -- Omar Bongo
I am an African and I am very proud of that. -- Fatou Bensouda
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. -- Nat King Cole
Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation. -- Nelson Mandela
African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. -- Elijah Cummings
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part. -- Alice Walker
A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American -- Charles Bierbauer
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor. -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background. -- Wilbur Smith
You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics. -- Kofi Annan
I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. -- Johnny Otis
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African. -- Joanna Newsom
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture -- Mark Steyn
African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. -- William J. Clinton
Improving Africa's farming sector would have multiple positive outcomes for African people. -- Richard Attias
African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. -- Miriam Makeba
Football gives the African people hope, a true motivation for their life. -- Marcel Desailly
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything. -- Jordan Peele
I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. -- Bobby Jindal
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. -- J. C. Watts
[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom. -- Ezola B. Foster
Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries. -- Pope Francis
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. -- Charles B. Rangel
The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery. -- Charles B. Rangel
For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies. -- Bo Burnham
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. -- Chaka Fattah
I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot. -- Nelson Mandela
Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars? -- Marie Phillips
I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically. -- Ibtihaj Muhammad
He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists. -- Spike Lee
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence. -- Maya Angelou
I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice. -- Alafia Stewart
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood. -- Tamara Tunie
I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist. -- Terry Crews
We did really, really badly with older African-American voters. I mean we got decimated. -- Bernie Sanders
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. -- Junot Diaz
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. -- Malcolm X
The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated. -- Donald Trump
I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African. -- Antony Sher
Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow. -- Walter Rodney
The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. -- Mo Ibrahim
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. -- Hillary Clinton
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. -- Albert Schweitzer
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth. -- Tony Snow
We were asked to host the Pan African Parliament and we agreed to this. -- Thabo Mbeki
Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life. -- P. W. Botha
The most dangerous place for an African-American in this country is in the womb. -- Rick Santorum
The African had opinions about the universe that eventually turned out to be true. -- John Henrik Clarke
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism. -- Julius Nyerere
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. -- Helene D. Gayle
I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that. -- Annie Ilonzeh
May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue? -- Nicky Oppenheimer
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. -- Omar Bongo
I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American. -- Herman Cain
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism -- Julius K. Nyerere
My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard. -- Danny Glover
I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans. -- Usher
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. -- Yaya DaCosta
It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them. -- Rand Paul
The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had. -- John Henrik Clarke
The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent. -- Susan Rice
I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion. -- Lucas Grabeel
What is most important is that the brand African cinema is going beyond African cinema. -- Jihan El-Tahri
The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating. -- Li Keqiang
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism -- Constance Baker Motley
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. -- Don Lemon
I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire. -- Deion Sanders
Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. -- Bob Pettit

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