African american Quotes

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— Anonymous

“DNA has memory!”

— Isaiah Washington

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— Anonymous

Imagine what a harmonious world it...

— Quincy Jones

As you become more clear about who...

— Oprah Winfrey

There will always be men struggling...

— Ernest Gaines

Remember who you are and whose you are.

— Thea Bowman

I'm an African American.

— Teresa Heinz

No makeup:) all natural beauty :)

— Muahjh

First of all, Bolshevism represents...

— C. L. R. James

I tell people I'm too stupid to...

— Debi Thomas

That cracker made a lot of African-American millionaires.

— Rush Limbaugh

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

— Rosa Parks

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

— Lance Reddick

The criminal justice system is rigged against African Americans.

— Eddie Griffin

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

— Michael Jordan

If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?

— Garrett Morgan

It's a shame that the people that judge you the most are the people of your own race.

— Sonya Parker

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

— Tracy Chapman

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can…

— Monique Coleman

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

— Janelle Monae

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and…

— Barack Obama

I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans.

— Christopher Rice

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

— Sidney Poitier

“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African…

— Richard Rothstein

“Why, godamit, why did they insist upon confusing the class struggle with the ass struggle, debasing both us and them—all human motives?”

— Ralph Ellison

In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said…

— Allen West

It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he…

— Jeffrey Rosen

To see, once again, that African American students are more likely to have a limited math curriculum and an underpaid novice teacher…

— Chaka Fattah

If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two…

— Coleman Hawkins

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies…

— Trent Franks

Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will…

— Constance Wu

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world.…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not…

— William Labov

A word to the wise ain't...

— Bill Cosby

A dream doesn't become reality...

— Colin Powell

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the...

— Malcolm X

But at the same time you can't...

— Angela Davis

Excellence is the name of the game...

— Judith Jamison