African american Quotes · Page 18

“Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.”

— Leon Dash

Black History Month is a poignant time for the entire country, but particularly the African American community.

— Jaime Harrison

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do…

— Barack Obama

“men, especially in the African American community” know they’re not supposed to cry or “bow down,”

— Kwame Kilpatrick

I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

— Donald Trump

My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of…

— Hannah Bronfman

I'm the least racist person. Friends of mine that happen to be African-American said: "You're the least racist person we've ever met".…

— Donald Trump

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the…

— June Jordan

We can see that the complexity we witness inside the African-American community today has always been there. Black people were just as…

— Henry Louis Gates

I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious…

— Lee Daniels

I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so,…

— Matt Kemp

You know, it helps having an African American driver behind the wheel. I'm representing that culture and that background. But a lot…

— Bubba Wallace

Mr Fosse was obviously influenced by Brecht and Weill, as well as Bergman and Fellini, and you could see the influence of…

— Ann Reinking

I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To…

— Eva Marcille

“The primary reason that U.S. infant mortality is so high compared to other countries is that African Americans suffer a staggering rate.…

— Laura Briggs

“We have created a caste system in this country, with African Americans kept exploited and geographically separate by racially explicit government policies.…

— Richard Rothstein

“I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make…

— Mars Hill

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is…

— Gordon Parks

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening…

— Ziggy Marley

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

— Lynn Swann

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white…

— Daryl Hall

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

— Donald Trump

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It…

— Spike Lee

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be…

— Josephine Baker

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

— Leah Ward Sears

I went to the malls and I balled too hard 'Oh my god, is that a Black Card?' I turned around and…

— Kanye West

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you…

— Oprah Winfrey

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

— Chaka Fattah

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes,…

— Allan Nairn

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

— Bernie Sanders

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

— Kobe Bryant

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

— Alice Walker

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of…

— Marcus Garvey

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in…

— Keegan-Michael Key

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans.

— Bobby Jindal

Michael Schultz's 'Cooley High' is a classic. Oftentimes, we don't get to see films about coming of age, especially for young African…

— Salim Akil

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

— James Brown

There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.

— Columbus Short