African Americans Lived

Famous quotes containing the words african, americans and/or lived:

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

    “I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one’s native State;Mneither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.”
    —Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

    “I have lived long enough: my way of life
    Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf;
    And that which should accompany old age,
    As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
    I must not look to have.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)