African Quotes

You've got to work twice as hard to get half as far as a Black person in white America. - African-American Proverb

You want to show the African-American kids the sacrifices that Don Haskins made, the seven players who played made, so they can play a sport they love in vast numbers. - Jerry Bruckheimer

You talk about your history and our history and we try to narrow the gap. The relationship that should be the strongest should be with the Jewish community and the African-American community. - John Wright

You saw every strata of the African American community... the doctor, the janitor, the guy who just got out of prison. So you got a sort of panorama. - Barry Shabaka Henley

You saw a lot of African-American faces. But what you really see is povertyevery one, white or Asian or Hispanic, can be in that position. This administration has done nothing about it. - Bob Filner

You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend! - Lewis Tappan

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa. - Chris Tucker

You know what's interesting? There is a much higher percentage of African-Americans at the speed positions than there is in society as a whole. I wonder if that's genetic, or mostly genetic. - Fisher DeBerry

You have to think of Latin food as a couple of culinary superpowers: the Caribbean-African influence and the Central American corn, rice and beans. And from South America comes fresh seafood; Peru, the birthplace of potatoes; and in Chile and Argentina, you see the European influence. - Aaron Sanchez