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From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
View quotes by Mary Landrieu

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
View quotes by Henry James

Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place. [Except when they got there they weren't Americans]
View quotes by Otto Friedrich

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
View quotes by Billy Joel

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
View quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
View quotes by George Patton

I did it in the last series against Smith because we saw an emotion that we could tap into ... I won't be doing it to Marcus. [on his treatment of the South African captain]
View quotes by Stephen Fleming

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
View quotes by Denis Diderot

Obviously it is flattering to come high up in a chart like that. [on being 28th sexiest woman in a South African magazine]
View quotes by Bianca Trytsman

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
View quotes by Kofi Annan

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism... .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
View quotes by Ama Ata Aidoo

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
View quotes by Carlos Santana

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
View quotes by Howard Stern

I am honoured to be asked to take on this role, especially as it comes at such an integral time for our relationship with South Africa and the African continent. There shall be many new challenges and opportunities ahead and I look forward to embracing them with great anticipation [on becoming the UK's high commissioner to South Africa]
View quotes by Paul Boateng

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
View quotes by Thomas Gold Appleton

Only Americans can hurt America.
View quotes by Dwight Eisenhower

Americans like fat books and thin women.
View quotes by Russell Baker

The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.
View quotes by Chaka Fattah

England, home and beauty. [The Americans]
View quotes by John Braham



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