African American English Quotes & Sayings

Confidence is the key to virtually everything. It's just deciding that you're qualified because once you decide you're qualified, everything else becomes very easy. — Eugene Mirman

The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon making inquiry, I found all the gold and diamond mines of South Africa were owned by Jews; that Rothschild controlled gold; Samuels controlled silver, Baum controlled other mining, and Moses controlled base metals. Anything these people touch they inevitably pollute. — Henry Hamilton Beamish

Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem. — Shunryu Suzuki

I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others. — Jesse Jackson

It's just that the characters are speaking their mind. As opposed to it just being an expression, they're actually saying what's on their mind, and that's something that Tennessee Williams is really famous for. Shakespeare does that and Tennessee Williams does that. You crave that, when you're an actor, for sure. — Bryce Dallas Howard

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them. — Jose Marti

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects. — William Labov

I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American. — Emmanuel Jal

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. — Robert Muller

This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America. — William Labov

You are not a goatherd. You are a student of the Lethani. My student. You should speak as a person of quality. — Patrick Rothfuss