I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.

- Binyavanga Wainaina

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

- Charlayne Hunter-Gault

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

- Cynthia McKinney

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

- Constance Baker Motley

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

- Chris Abani

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

- Cory Booker

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

- Carlos Santana

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

- Bruce Chatwin

I am proud to be an African.

- Brenda Fassie

Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.

- Binyavanga Wainaina

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

- Albert Schweitzer

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

- Bob Geldof

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

- Abdoulaye Wade

I relate to both my Caucasian side and my African side, and I love that.

- Annie Ilonzeh

I am not an African. I am an American.

- Albert Murray

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian.

- Ama Ata Aidoo

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

- Akon

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

- Aasif Mandvi

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans are less than 50 percent.

- Alphonso Jackson