Afros Quotes - Page 2

• The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. Other considerations are of minor importance.

  Ida B. Wells

  Race, Law, Punishment

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2009). “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

  Tim Meadows

  School, Different, Variation

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• When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Hemisphere

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not - you are not smiling about it.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Pain, Culture, Serious

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• Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Hair, Blue

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• Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.

  Garth Fagan

  Dance, Thinking, Creative

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• Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot or he didn't get melted down.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Country, Years, Justice

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• Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.

  William Wells Brown

  Taken, Race, Justice

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• I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Rights, Self

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• Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

  Helen McCrory

  Growing Up, Hair, High Heels

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• I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

  Grace Jones

  Girl, School, Black

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• We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.

  Fidel Castro

  Latin, Nations, Latin American

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• There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Hair, Balls

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• The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

  Harryette Mullen

  Dream, Hurt, Dark

  Harryette Mullen (2002). “Sleeping with the Dictionary”, p.39, Univ of California Press

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• It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Clouds, People

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• Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.

  Colson Whitehead

  Couple, Years, African American

  Colson Whitehead (2007). “Apex Hides the Hurt”, p.192, Anchor

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• A rap pro, do a show, good to go, also
  Cameo afro, Virgo, domino, I go Rambo,
  Gigolo, Romeo, Friday night spend money on a ho...tel,
  To get a good night's sleep, I'm keeping in step.
  Now do I come off? Yep.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Good Night, Friday, Rap

  Song: Just Rhymin' with Biz, Album: Long Live the Kane

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• When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!

  Ice Prince

  Games, People, Hip Hop

  Source: mobo.com

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• I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  White, Numbers, Desire

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was kinda blonde and bearded and had an afro and was bushy like a sun. So I don't know, he named me Surya Das but who knows.

  Surya Das

  Names, Blonde, Sun

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• ....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Spiritual, Expression, Jamaica

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• Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Odds

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of the United States. Nevertheless, he built two organizations in the spring of 1964. First, Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which was a religious organization that was largely based on members of the N.O.I. who left with him. It was spearheaded by James 67X or James Shabazz, who was his chief of staff. Then secondly was the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

  Manning Marable

  Religious, Spring, Organization

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Past, Years

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

  Malcolm X

  Eggs, Ducks, Chickens

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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