“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it” — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that… — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Copy Share Image
Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life. — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
Michigan is very racially separated and the city of Detroit itself is 84 percent African-American and the surrounding suburbs are 86 percent White. — Kwame Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I love it when some people say they want racial equality, but still lock their car doors when an African American walks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Fresno Bulldogs: This gang is one of the few California Hispanic gangs not to claim allegiance to the Surenos or Nortenos. Latin… — Steven Briggs Copy Share Image
One consequence of racism and segregation is that many American whites know little or nothing about the daily lives of African Americans.… — James Forman, Jr Copy Share Image
What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
“Overt bigotry, Jim Crow laws and policies, government-mandated discrimination, and the belief in black inferiority have virtually disappeared. Laissez-faire racism, instead, involves… — Thomas Shapiro Copy Share Image
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
As far as inner cities, I was very strong on the inner cities during the campaign, I think it's probably got me… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you? — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist,… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can… — Monique Coleman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think there are profound differences between the civil rights struggle for African Americans and the civil rights struggle for gay Americans. — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
First, of all, it isn't black talk, it's African American talk, and you should'nt be talking like that at all Samantha, it's… — Charlotte York Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well. — Chanel Iman Copy Share Image
Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. — Debi Thomas Copy Share Image
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
