African Americans

Famous quotes containing the words african and/or americans:

    “If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
    —White South African proverb.

    “Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them—as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.”
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)