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.

    The Americans ... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
    James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)