When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
- Malcolm X
My mother's last name, maiden name is Hogue. She is Cherokee and African. My grandfather, Dave Hogue, owned 300 acres of land in Marion, Alabama. He was an entrepreneur and someone I looked up to as a kid a lot.
- Mathew Knowles
How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.
- Bob Marley
The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.
- Nelson Mandela
The largest tusks are yielded by the African elephant, and find their way hither from the port of Zanzibar: they are noted for being opaque, soft or "mellow" to work, and free from cracks or defects.