American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Like anyone else in television, I like to explore my life experience. And I don't think African-American artists see doing shows or… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of… — Cornell William Brooks Copy Share Image
People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or "Asian-American"—is untenable and ridiculous. For one thing, "American" is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
When we say, 'Look, Donald Trump was a friend to hip hop back in the day; so was Bill Clinton,' It doesn't… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
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“Rochester became a magnet for African Americans in the twentieth century, one of many northern industrial cities that blacks flocked to during… — Rick Wartzman Copy Share Image
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time.… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
African Americans and all people of color can benefit greatly by supporting the Clean Power Plan, which will help reduce the impacts… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“Not being able to deal with your life is humiliating. It makes you feel weak. And if you’re African-American and female, not… — Samantha Irby Copy Share Image
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“Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“This is a point with which Pritchard, at the Critical Flame, agrees, writing that "as far as mainstream literary culture is concerned,… — Daniel Pritchard Copy Share Image
The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least… — Randall Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We fold our immigrant selves into this veneer of what we think is African American girlhood. The result is more jagged than… — Ibi Zoboi Copy Share Image
When will we address the fact that rich, white people think they know what's in the best interest of children of African-Americans… — Karen Lewis Copy Share Image
The African-American is often used, and has conspired with the rest of America to be used, as a diversion from America's problems.… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that,… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“If I weren't so screwed up, I would've sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me… — Miranda Parker Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the largest prison population in the world: two million people. One out of every eight prisoners in the world… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to… — Jake Tapper Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
“As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. In 1991, the Sentencing Project reported that the number of people… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
You have to understand being an actress, and being an African American actress of a certain hue, I think that you have… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
This is a column collection, or as one colleague called it, "history in real time," recounting my perspective on the highs and… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S.… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
Let's face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there - they oppose him not for… — Sam Donaldson Copy Share Image
Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away… — Charles W. Chesnutt Copy Share Image
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