African american Quotes · Page 6

The Africans know I'm not an African. I'm an American.

— Whoopi Goldberg

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

— Wes Montgomery

“Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.”

— Lisa Eley

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

— James Brown

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

— William J. Clinton

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.

— Cannonball Adderley

Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot.

— Minnie Riperton

I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-­American.

— Barack Obama

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using…

— Beyonce Knowles

“But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re…

— Nicola Yoon

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

— Stephen Ambrose

As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans…

— Alphonso Jackson

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

— Carol Moseley Braun

When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying…

— Brittney Griner

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of…

— Sol Stern

What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.

— Byron Allen

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world;…

— Darius McCrary

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler…

— Lynn Nottage

What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes,…

— David Robinson

“[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only…

— John McWhorter

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is…

— Randall Robinson

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people…

— Beyonce Knowles

“She told him the origins of the “buck dance,” when “white people would come up and say ‘N____r, dance’, and then start…

— Stephen M. Ward

Obviously this is something huge, just to be playing on the world stage and repping all the parents out there - not…

— Jessica McDonald

A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man

— Dred Scott

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

— Tracey Ullman

“African American Indie Authors need more exposure!”

— J Ryenae

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

— Malcolm X

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

— Condoleezza Rice

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

— Pam Grier

“Look at you. Riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels.”

— H.L. Sudler

I shouldn't be the only African American Republican in the House of Representatives.

— Will Hurd

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.

— Eldridge Cleaver

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

— Gabrielle Union

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

— Bubba Wallace

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

— Maya Angelou

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

— June Jordan

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

— Mike Tyson

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

— Angela Davis