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No African girl will choose six packs over six cars. So my sons stop the gym and work hard.

African Girl Gym Hard
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I have a great relationship with African Americans, as you possibly have heard. I just have great respect for them. And they like me. I like them.

African Respect Relationship Great
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If men wanted to look good in a skirt, they would need the body of an African. And the colour. A skirt with white, skinny legs. Horrible!

African Body Colour Good
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It’s hard to bewitch an African lady these days. Every time you take a piece of her hair to the witch doctor, either a Brazilian innocent woman gets mad or a factory in China catches fire.

Hard African Lady Time
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I'm Nigerian. I'm African. I have a lot to say. Apart from what I say, though, is the feeling. People can relate to that feeling. It's a reciprocal relationship. They feed off me and I feed off them.

African Apart Feed Feeling
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I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

African Almost Ancestors Being
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I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Trust Love African Careful
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When I'm back home, all I wear is African fabric. All I really rock is the traditional stuff.

African Back Fabric Home
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We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

African Artists Definitely Earn
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It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

Across African Anything Artists
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The only obstacle between young Africans and the world they dream of is their courage to have the audacity to build it.

Obstacle Young Dream Build
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I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

Afford African Believe Afford
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

Young Stop Killed African
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African problems should have African solutions.

African Problems Solutions Race
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You cannot sing African music in proper English
Sing Music Africa Proper
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Affliction African Communities Fault
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The best way to help Africans today is to help them stand on their feet. And the best way to do that is by creating jobs.

Best Help Feet Creating
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I’m an African optimist. That doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated by the obstacles I face, but I see those things as opportunities.

African Mean Obstacles Those
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The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.

Economic Possible Mentally Political
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A talented footballer comes over, his family depends on him, and if his agent or club don't treat him well, he might not succeed, and then he feels he's let everyone down. For years, African players have been exploited.

African Agent Been Club
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I believe the more you come to Europe, it makes you a better player, and it gives them an advantage because the African style is different from the European style.

Advantage African Because Believe
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The African continent is moving into a new stage of growth and development. It offers tremendous opportunities for those willing to take the risk.

Risk Stage Moving African
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

African Case Church Community
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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I feel like it's not Africans who are afraid of China's rise in Africa. It's the West that's afraid of China's rise in Africa.

Afraid Africa African China
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

African Fear General Know
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I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so many millions of our young people. And they listenin'.

African-American Because Ear Greater
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We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

African-American Assume Bad Bad Situation
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The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

African African American American Class
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

African Bowl Crucial Cut
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

African Dreams Genius Snow
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We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

About African Also Crazy
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

African Always Ant Begins
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Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

African Kicked Need Only
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.

Nas
African Black Everyone White
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There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

African Allowing Comedy Folk
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Purge yourself of hate. I'm not just a journalist but an African Leader. If that gets you angry, live with that FACT!

Hate African Angry Journalist
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Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer.

African African American American I Love
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
African Hold Our Shape
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No matter where I am or what I do, I am proudly AFRICAN

No matter Where Proudly African
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There is nothing like African standard, you must embrace the global standard.

African standard Embrace You Global standard
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Accent Accents Accessible Adjust
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All across this world, especially within the African diaspora, we feel like there is a constant devaluing of our culture and our livelihood.

African Dispora Feel There
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I was raised with a father who really believed in the bridge between all Africans around the world.

I Was Raised Father
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He scores goals, assists, and he's got everything that you'd ask for in a striker. We, as African players, are all proud of what Didier achieved as a player. The way he holds himself is unbelievable.

Holds Proud Way Goals
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