That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No,… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police… — Warren Ballentine Copy Share Image
Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's… — Blair Underwood Copy Share Image
“The cold buried deep inside the bones of her hands, her feet, her head, her back…everywhere. Viola felt old, chilled, and exflunctified. She brushed away her… — Sheridan Brown Copy Share Image
People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the… — Deshaun Watson Copy Share Image
I happen to think that Hillary Clinton is a beacon of hope for younger girls, as was Barack Obama in other inspirational… — Alex Meneses Copy Share Image
Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Donald Trump - whatever he was warning the Democrats, whatever he's warning African-Americans about - he wasn't criticizing them. He was criticizing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Once you dive into the African-American struggle or whatever you want to call it and you look past that, you realize that… — Joey Badass Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“In Georgia, beating back a 1949 challenge from black parents to equalize the schools, Governor Herman Talmadge had already proposed a constitutional… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
“More African American adults are under correctional control today - in prison or jail, on probation or parole - than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I'm trying to get… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is… — Shintaro Ishihara Copy Share Image
I look in the eyes and I see the heart. As long as it's a human story. I would like to turn… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
I think the difference between me and some people is that I'm content to do my little bit. Sometimes people think they… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
“When Africans were kidnapped, trafficked en masse and brutally dragged in chains to work camps in the “New World,” called plantations, we… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
When I got my success, I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard.… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research…if we are to continue to leave… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms:… — H. Samy Alim Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Asians are a much smaller 'minority' than African Americans in this country. But because Asians are so successful, college admission… — Mike Gallagher Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system was strategically employed to force African Americans back into a system of extreme repression and control, a tactic… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The national media which I consider to be very racist against European Americans and I think they have caused the incitement of… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
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