The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of… — Andre Carson Copy Share Image
Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
“Spoil me differently! Spoil me with your love, honesty, and commitment. Spoil me with respect, honor, and appreciation. Spoil me with engaging… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In 1985 I graduated from Deshler High School in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and I was their first African American homecoming queen. You would… — Cynthia Bailey Copy Share Image
How many African American champions have there been over the course of WWE's history? It's something that was the elephant in the… — Kofi Kingston Copy Share Image
When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on… — Sarah Louise Delany Copy Share Image
I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many… — Patricia Ireland Copy Share Image
I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I am the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, which is the country's only national immigrant rights organization for… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the… — Robin Givhan Copy Share Image
The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted,… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Groups like the NAACP, The Anti-Defamation League, NOW and GLAAD, will respond to derisive language directed at their constituents. The price paid… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
African American Congressman Bobby Rush wore a hoodie on the floor of Congress to make a point this week. And they threw… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“What y'all ladies got to share? Hmmm, what you bitches got?" Aunt Georgia sighed and squinted at the boy. She said, "The… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
You take for example the environmental movement is a big deal in my district. You know, you might say, yeah, more African… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are… — Angela Robinson Copy Share Image
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by… — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her… — Nipsey Hussle Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought… — Clarence Page Copy Share Image
Today there are more African-Americans under correctional control — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
African American music can't happen in Germany or in Italy or in Mumbai. If America disappeared off the face of the Earth… — David Simon Copy Share Image
So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
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