African Americans Lived

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

    “I’ve never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.”
    —Victoria Gray, African American civil rights activist. As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 3, by Hay Mills (1993)

    “In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “So I may say,
    “I died of living,
    having lived one hour....””
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)