Class African Americans

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

“Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.”
—Frances Power Cobbe (1822–1904)

“I never feel so conscious of my race as I do when I stand before a class of twenty-five young men and women eager to learn about what it is to be black in America.”
—Claire Oberon Garcia, African American college professor. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B3 (July 27, 1994)

“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)