African american Quotes · Page 11

It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

— Curtis Martin

We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and…

— Norman Lear

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

— Jordan Peele

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

— Philip Smith

My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty.

— Mike Espy

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

— Candice Patton

When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical.

— David Olusoga

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

— Philip Freelon

White liberals are the most racist people I've ever met in my entire life. They define everything by race. They want people…

— Madison Cawthorn

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and…

— Bill Frist

“Cripes, I can’t keep up on this political correct shit. I don’t even know what to call myself. One minute I’m black.…

— Janet Evanovich

“Inclusion on race has been a very different journey, and I worry that for all the progress we have made, we are…

— Dan Rather

The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but…

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to…

— Bonnie Greer

I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times,…

— Spike Lee

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and…

— Rand Paul

To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.

— Rand Paul

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a…

— Cory Booker

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get…

— Janet Jackson

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

— Tracy Martin

“It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.”

— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant…

— Dave Barry

Hip-Hop isn't just music. It also a spiritual movement of blacks! You can't just call hip-hop a trend.

— Lauryn Hill

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

— Booker T. Washington

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,…

— Van Jones

I did not know George Floyd personally, but I am African American just as he is. He is my brother.

— Porsha Williams

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate…

— Dave Chappelle

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in…

— Don Lemon

I love being an African American female! I love my skin tone & learning about my ancestors.

— Anonymous

African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.

— Ras Baraka

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through…

— Nikki Giovanni

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your…

— Oprah Winfrey

Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated.

— Donald Trump

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

— Alan Paton

There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served…

— Sterling K. Brown