As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“However, many African-American boys feel loathed before they are loved, feel rejected before they are respected, and feel alienated before they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big… — James Fox Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but… — Dontrelle Willis Copy Share Image
“One of the most impressive civilizing offensives of the 1990s came from African American communities, who set themselves the task of recivilizing… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“As those Georgetown scholars say in their 2013 “Separate and Unequal” report, between 1995 and 2009, new freshmen enrollments grew by 197… — Goldie Blumenstyk Copy Share Image
I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
I'm distraught as I look at my boys - two are African American and one is Caucasian - because too many people… — Monty Williams Copy Share Image
You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
“But class divisions influence criminal justice debates in black communities in less obvious ways as well: they explain, for example, why black… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same… — Marshawn Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
“1. Declaration of Intent: Hand lifting to the sky The first step is the collective declaration of intent to reestablish Kintuadi between… — Dom Pedro V Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
This [2016] election is also about, so importantly to me, African-American and Hispanic-American people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think anyone that comes to Nigeria has to offer value. What value are you bringing? There are Black Americans here. I… — Mo Abudu Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young… — Vincent Harding Copy Share Image
There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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