326 Quotes About African-american
- Author S.B. Redd
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Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But she stunned him by eagerly waiting for him just like old times—on her knees wearing only a collar and a leash.
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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If we go back in time long enough, then other than the Africans living in Africa, everybody on earth is a descendant of immigrants who migrated to various parts of the world from humankind's original homeland Africa.
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- Author Nikki Giovanni
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and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic equations in your head why you had a basketball scholarship but you always knew that you had to take what they were giving since that was all you were going to get but you never fooled yourself about either the taking or the giving or the needing or the having you just sort of said to yourself I'll have to see what is being offered
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- Author Nikki Giovanni
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The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
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- Author Aysha Taryam
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George Floyd’s pleas awakened this world that has been rendered comatose by fear of contagion and all of a sudden nothing mattered but justice.
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- Author Henry Louis Gates Jr
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Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
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- Author Stephanie Lahart
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My ancestors are my greatest motivation!
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- Author W.E.B. Du Bois
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The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.
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- Author Kerry D. Brackett
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For poetry and I are oneTo separate is to decapitateFor my poetry is forever.
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