Top 18 African Americans Music Quotes
#1. When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.
Kurt Eichenwald
#2. Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
Diane Watson
#3. Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
Marina Tsvetaeva
#4. From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Mary Landrieu
#6. It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.
Clayton Christensen
#7. People don't necessarily take power from you for themselves. It just means they are operating at a lower attention level and you got pulled down by it. You are not sufficiently strong enough to be with someone and be unaffected.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.
Alan Autry
#9. There were fissures and chasms in the walls and floor, and every now and then a crack would open right before their feet. The widest was more than seven feet across, and it was long before Pippin could summon enough courage to leap over the dreadful gap.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.
Evelyn Waugh
#11. When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.
Hill Harper
#12. And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free.
Rashod Ollison
#13. I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
J. William Fulbright
#14. Her safety, needs, wants and desires would always be the most important things to him. She was the center of his universe and he would protect her at all cost.
Julia Mills
#15. We notice as the Bible goes on, the area of scared space shrinks.
Northrop Frye
#16. I've been through a lot. It doesn't make me enlightened, or this or that, but I've had a handful of experiences that have given me some information that I can share with others.
Jai Uttal
#17. Nor deem the irrevocable Past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#18. I'm actually a ridiculously basic person when it comes to make-up, and I pretty much wear the same things I did when I started my company 22 years ago, apart from a few differently textured foundations.
Bobbi Brown
