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It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period. -- Hugh Masekela
I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture. -- Hugh Masekela
A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there. -- Wangechi Mutu
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in real African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual, it's meditation, it's Buddhism, it's praying, it's all these things. -- Robert Glasper
I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that. -- Lenny Kravitz
The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures. -- Jimmy Page
The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life. -- Leopold Sedar Senghor
It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them. -- George Carlin
Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. -- Tavis Smiley
We have to realize our black heritage in order to give us strength to move on and progress. But as far as returning to the old African culture, it's unnecessary and it's not advantageous in many respects. We believe that culture itself will not liberate us. We're going to need some stronger stuff. -- Huey Newton
So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation. -- Zora Neale Hurston
One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you'd be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country, he is still more African than he is American. -- Malcolm X
It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that. -- David Byrne
Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture -- Mark Steyn
I'm African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist. -- Terry Crews
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. -- Ishmael Reed
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. -- Mary Landrieu
One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there. -- Jonas Carpignano
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture. -- Anna Deavere Smith
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans. -- Hugh Masekela
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black. -- Keegan-Michael Key
Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything. -- Guido Palau
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader. -- Camille Paglia
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. -- Johnny Otis
I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture. -- Hugh Masekela
What the new government of Nigeria and other African governments must do, is to start a massive reorientation campaign in the culture of the dignity of labour. -- Sunday Adelaja
Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them. -- Nnedi Okorafor
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans. -- Eliot Engel
The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community. -- Ziggy Marley
The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment. -- Dambisa Moyo
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody. -- Spike Lee
Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies. -- Chadwick Boseman
The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. -- Nelson Mandela
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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