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Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

~Christian Scott

Topics: African Boom European Fusion Harmony Jazz Mix Music Really Rhythm Take West You

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Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.

~Christine Tsai

Topics: African African Americans American Capitalists Color Disconnected Latinos Lot Other People Silicon Silicon Valley Unfortunately Valley Venture

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Denys Cowan and Dwayne Turner's visions of Wakanda as an ersatz African Epcot Center opened my eyes to the unexploited possibilities; these men, both of whom are African American, together with writer Peter B. Gillis, created an African Asgard of sorts, and I just went, 'Oh, my.'

~Christopher Priest

Topics: African African American American Both Center Created Eyes Just Men Oh Opened Peter Possibilities Sort Together Turner Visions Whom Writer

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If we can provide even a fictional roadmap to what a successful, prosperous African nation might look like, then let's do that.

~Christopher Priest

Topics: African Even Fictional Like Look Might Nation Prosperous Provide Successful Then

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I think that there are some people on the so-called Left who might say we have to circle our wagons around the first African American president, and to me that is racism in reverse because his policies are actually still the racist policies of empire.

~Cindy Sheehan

Topics: Actually African African American American American President Around Because Circle Empire First His Left Me Might Our People Policies President Racism Reverse Say So-Called Some Some People Still Think Who I Think

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The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: African Always Brother Donkey Father Favor His Horse More Mother Mule Never North Others Supposedly Talks

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I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

~Clifford Geertz

Topics: Africa African Convincing Going Had Hard Hard Time North Students Themselves Time Understand Were

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As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had reluctantly agreed to sit in. He is a proud man who also knows that his knees aren't what they once were - that years of high school and college football had long accelerated the deterioration of his aging joints.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Accelerate African African American Aging Agreed Also American American History College College Football Culture Deterioration Football Grandfather Had He High High School High School And College His History Joints Knees Knows Long Man Museum National Once Proud Proud Man Pushed School Sit Through Walked Were Wheelchair Who Years

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History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Across African Art Atlantic Being Black Cannot Caricatures Changed Continent Depicting Further History Implications Lives Order People Political Proven Render Sailed Stripped Them Were Western Western World World

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I do want to be a representative of the African community, and I want to hold myself and dress myself in a way that reflects that. I want black kids to see me and think, 'Okay, he's carrying himself as a black man, and that's how a black man should carry himself.'

~Colin Kaepernick

Topics: African Black Carry Carrying Community Dress He Himself Hold How Kids Man Me Myself Okay Reflects Representative See Should Think Want Way

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