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.

    “Then came the Americans with peanut butter.
    I gobbled it up like a vacation.
    I loved them all, even the GI who said “Jew pig”....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Nor sequent centuries could hit
    Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE’s wit.
    The men who lived with him became
    Poets, for the air was fame.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)