African american Quotes · Page 15

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

— Malcolm X

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all…

— Henry Louis Gates

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand…

— Bernie Sanders

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…

— Paul Robeson

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

— Ishmael Reed

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

— Joycelyn Elders

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no…

— Donald Trump

I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put…

— Gabby Douglas

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I've just got a real thirst for knowledge now, especially seeing how the world is, seeing how the disparity is with African…

— Rodney Hood

As CNN saw our growth in African-American viewership, they affirmed a fundamental truth of news coverage - people will watch you if…

— Soledad O'Brien

People that are the same colour as me say, 'You give me inspiration,' like there could be people like them onscreen. That's…

— Caleb McLaughlin

'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from…

— Roger Ross Williams

Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to…

— Lori Lightfoot

The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It…

— Kehinde Wiley

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he…

— Sister Souljah

Happy black history month to all my African Americans thanks to all the African American men and women who lead us so…

— Anonymous

“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

— John Lewis

The harsh truth is that 'respectability' is the exorbitant tax we African Americans are forced to pay daily as we try to…

— Jonathan Capehart

There's a natural marriage between the pro-Israel Jewish community and the African American community.

— Ritchie Torres

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

— Michael N. Castle

I can't compete for roles that require me to be Caucasian or African American, even if those characters really connect with me…

— Mena Massoud

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets…

— James Brown

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

— Mara Liasson

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

— Jerome Ringo

As African Americans, we always have to fight for inclusion, despite your moral background: Christian, Muslim, Jewish - it doesn't matter.

— Kenny Smith

Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.

— Michael Eric Dyson

The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and…

— Michelle Alexander

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

— Donna Brazile

People in America kill themselves because they find no reason to live. People in Africa fight to live cause they want to…

— DJ Adams

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

— Leon Brown

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American…

— Stacy Brown-Philpot

I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to…

— Glenn Beck

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that…

— Barack Obama

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and…

— Bethann Hardison

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but…

— Ric Keller