African Americans Lived

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

“... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a “slave of a slave.””
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)

“We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)