I never said I wasn’t Black… I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected… — Raven-Symone Copy Share Image
“George E. Johnson marketed the “relaxer,” a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I'm excited about my own network, BounceTV. It's the first African-American-owned broadcast network. It's myself, my partner Rob Hardy, and some other… — Will Packer Copy Share Image
“It is my belief that conscious African American students ought to be in a constant state of rage and in a constant… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I'm one of those persons who think that watching black people suffer is not an idea of entertainment. I know a lot… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
“In 1960, never-married mothers accounted for fewer than 5 percent of the children of single mothers; by 2006, they accounted for 43… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
There is a political and racial context behind everything that I do. Not always because I design it that way, or because… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can't get together, and we're having these issues. I think… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
“My point is that bias is not advertised by a glowing sign worn around jurors’ necks; we are all guilty of it,… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
[Winning the White House was an achievement], but as an African-American, [Barack Obama], I think the symbolism is in how he conducted… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have… — Amanda Smith Copy Share Image
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American… — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
“Liberals stand up for victims of oppression and exclusion. They fight to break down arbitrary barriers (such as those based on race,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Trump's position is that the people who are most victimised by black criminals are law-abiding black people, and he's been doing very… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different… — Paula Patton Copy Share Image
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm interested in Native American and African American stories, and LGBTQ stories and stories of persons of mixed heritage. These are the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
What I would note, though, and one of the things I really admire about the vice president: She is the first African… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image
More people are on food stamps today because of Obamas policies than ever in history. I would like to be the best… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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