Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“1. Close Friend, someone who got yo back, yo "main nigga." 2. Rooted in blackness and the Black experience. From a middle-aged… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
What we accomplished during World War Two is just amazing. We turned our country upside down. African Americans were demanding to be… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
“these instances bore none of the harrowing features of racially motivated torture, mutilation, and cruelty endemic to Euro-American lynching of African Americans.… — Helmut Walser Smith Copy Share Image
Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can… — Simon Munnery Copy Share Image
To prevent the death of mothers across our country, we must expand research, implement researched best practices, and fiercely work to understand… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
God has a team. It's made up of African-American, Anglo, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, and a variety of other people and cultures.… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“It doesn't happen to me anymore, because a fresh generation of Africans and Asians has arisen to take over the business, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think for the foreseeable future we have to disabuse ourselves of any ideas of unifying, or coming together, or all getting… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“Marie the Second sported a bright tignon to signal her status and identity. She flaunted her turban, gold jewelry, and a proud… — Martha Ward Copy Share Image
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an… — Tika Sumpter Copy Share Image
During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children… — William Labov Copy Share Image
When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the… — Philip Roberts Copy Share Image
“The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I would definitely like to see the education process more enhanced in African-American communities, because we need to be educated on laws… — Tracy Martin Copy Share Image
That happens to a lot of couples. I understand the black history in this country, and regret it, I wish it hadn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic." You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the… — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
I think 99.9% of our law enforcement officers are great Americans. Many of them are African American, Hispanic, Asian, they're working the… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Myself, I happen to be married to an African-American woman, and we're together 17 years. We took a few trips to the… — Tom Verica Copy Share Image
If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, "Here's what it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I stand on the shoulders of so many who have come before me, including Judge Constance Baker Motley, who was the first… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
