African Americans Lived

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

    “The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.”
    —Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)

    “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)

    “A wise old owl lived in an oak;
    The more he saw the less he spoke;”
    —Edward Hersey Richards (b. 1874)