There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story. — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
“The most powerful ancestral or generational curse we face is our unhealed trauma.” — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you. — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements. — Curtis Martin Copy Share Image
As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America. — Tracy Martin Copy Share Image
“It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“those African Americans who did manage to penetrate the skilled trades mostly were consigned to low-wage work. According to Social Security Administration… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah,… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
“Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a… — Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff Copy Share Image
When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
Our African American kids need to know what Black Wall Street was all about. — George Hill Copy Share Image
