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• American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I’d got to grips with it, I’d graduated.

  Khaled Hosseini

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• If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

  Bette Davis

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• I’ve been to North Africa many times.

  Martin Scorsese

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• It’s a pity one can’t imagine what one can’t compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

  Vladimir Nabokov

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• I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can’t do for some reason are the South African and Australian.

  Liev Schreiber

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• What’s really good is African drum music.

  Fiona Apple

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• Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I’m thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it’s our front, it’s our face.

  Faith Ringgold

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• Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights – compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.

  Cynthia McKinney

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

  Fatou Bensouda

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

  Fatou Bensouda

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

  Nelson Mandela

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• I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

  Clifford Geertz

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• The North African mule talks always of his mother’s brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

  Clifford Geertz

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

  Serj Tankian

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• An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.

  William Labov

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• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  William Labov

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• This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.

  William Labov

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• The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

  Charles B Rangel

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

  Albert Schweitzer

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• This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I’m black but because of my policies.

  Herman Cain

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