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The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
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Bestial
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I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American.
Jon Secada / Singer-Songwriter
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Cuban
Might
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We are not only a Latin American nation, we are an Afro-American nation also.
Fidel Castro / Former Prime Minister Of Cuba
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Latin
Nations
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
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Grown
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The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.
Malcolm X / Human Rights Activist
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May
United States
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I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.
Malcolm X / Human Rights Activist
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. Wells / Journalist
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Fallen
Race
Seems
Sinning
Against
Somebody
Show
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Sinned
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I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.
Liam Hemsworth / Actor
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Sun
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My work sometimes can be abstract and appear not to have a direct relationship to Afro-American concerns, but, in fact, it is based on that.
Donald Byrd / Jazz Trumpeter
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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 / Human Rights Activist
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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 / Trumpeter
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American Culture
Culture
Pain
Serious
Smiling
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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 / Singer-Songwriter
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Culture
Strong
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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 / Poet
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Names
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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 / Historian
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Slavery
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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 / Comedian
Intelligence
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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 / Author
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Finals
Mind
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I grew up in New York. We were all diversified, as far as music was concerned. I grew up liking just about everything. So I tried to incorporate that into my playing, although the original school where I came from was Afro-Cuban music. But I liked all kinds of music -- I tried to bring that into everything.
Don Alias /
New York
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