African Quotes

I've been doing African dance all my life.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

What's really good is African drum music.

I am an African and I am very proud of that.

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

We are African in origin and American in birth.

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.