151 Quotes About African-american-authors
- Author Jidenna
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There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens.Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation.Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent.
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- Author N.D. Jones
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You are at your best when those you love are uppermost in your heart and mind. Swift feet, Mafdet, swift feet.
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- Author Mildred D. Taylor
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Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.
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- Author N.D. Jones
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Easy, Sage, you have no idea. I just agreed to betray my marriage vows, my husband, and my beating heart.
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- Author Luffina Lourduraj
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You have a color of your own- Dark chocolate,You have a culture your own- Hip pop,You have a revival of your own- Harlem Renaissance,You are the spot on a ladybug that adds its beauty,You are the pupil of an eye,You are the vastness of space,You are the richness of soil,You are the sweetness of dark chocolate,You are the mystery in nature,Blessed Black chocolate, God has made You to rule the Land, that made You a slave.
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- Author L.V. Lewis
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There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you.
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- Author Lorene Cary
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I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel...for St. Paul's School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape.
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- Author Evan Winter
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The wars you'll wage aren't decided when you fight them. They're decided before that by the extent of your efforts and the substance of your sacrifices.
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