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Famous quotes containing the words african american, african and/or american:

    “I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
    —Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)

    “A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,—a denizen of the woods. “The pale white man!” I do not wonder that the African pitied him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.”
    —Jill Robinson (b. 1936)