Quotes About Afros

#1. I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

Tommy Lasorda

#2. [Replying to the question of the presenter: "where did the name "Sex Pistols" come from, who thought this name up?"] Some animal. I can't remember. It doesn't matter. It's history.

John Lydon

#3. I breathe just to be near you...

Fisher Amelie

#4. If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

Gayle Forman

#5. Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action

Carol Anne Douglas

#6. The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning, and the extent to which they promote for blacks and whites alike a completely rewarding participation in American life.

Jay Saunders Redding

#7. Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell

Novala Takemoto

#8. You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.

Alan K. Simpson

#9. Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.

Mary Wesley

#10. 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

#11. A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

Dick Gregory

#12. YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.

Amy King

#13. Have faith in yourself. If you don't believe you can do it, you won't.

Tahereh Mafi

#14. Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Mae West

#15. Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

Mick Hucknall

#16. I vary my days between skiing and snowboarding - I can go fast down pisted runs but still struggle in the bumps on a snowboard.

Mike Tindall

#17. For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.

Nathan Huggins

#18. I want to be invisible.

Megan Fox

#19. My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch

Jack Nicholson

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

Fidel Castro