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.

“As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

“We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is “knowing what your uterus looks like.””
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)