African american Quotes · Page 8

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

— Yaya DaCosta

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

— Bubba Wallace

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

— Gabrielle Union

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

I don't really identify myself as white or African-American. I'm just me. I'm Madison.

— Madison Keys

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

— Mike Tyson

Being African American and Jewish, I have plenty of ancestors and family members that I can look to for strength and, more…

— Cameron Boyce

I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain…

— India.Arie

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

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

— Xavier Becerra

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like…

— Anonymous

In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

— Mara Liasson

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

— Tyron Woodley

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“When the norms associated with race take on a static and determining quality, they can be very difficult to undermine. Students who…

— Pedro A. Noguera

First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior…

— Henry Louis Gates

A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition…

— Bell Hooks

Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think…

— Jamilah Lemieux

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're…

— Keegan-Michael Key

African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white…

— Jill Stein

My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger…

— Henry Louis Gates

“America is a war and you are on the other side. How's a black man ever going to get a fair trial…

— John Grisham

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

— Angela Davis

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

— Susan L. Taylor

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

— Toni Morrison

A grievance is a political action. It's not just African-Americans.

— Rush Limbaugh

There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

— Marcus Garvey

I love African American women, but I just don't like my skin complexion.

— Kodak Black

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

— Rosa Parks

We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.

— Marianne Williamson

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

— Bonnie St. John

She could be african american, caucasion or asian

— Kid Cudi

STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

— Joseph Simmons

Racism is the sin of unrighteous self-exaltation.

— Drew Istotle

Only African Guys Can Tell 10 Girls I Love You In One Day.

— Don Kel