#africa

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african americans #choice #choices #college #delaware

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african #african american #american #angelou #believes

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. ↗

— Saul Williams

#around #because #being #black #blackness

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#african american #am #american #artist #because

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. ↗

— Bill Frist

#american #american experience #experience #important #most

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#back #black #blacks #desire #good

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad! ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#africa #home

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#based #educationally #else #founded #industrially

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#crowned #king #look #will