African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem. — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
The relationship between police and African-Americans has probably always been strained. — Harrison Barnes Copy Share Image
'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
If Black and African-Americans could participate in our economy at the same level that others do, it'd be a boost to GDP… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day. — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but… — Ben Nighthorse Campbell Copy Share Image
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
'Traveling While Black' is about empathy, what African Americans experience in traveling throughout America, and how it hasn't changed that much from… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“Although it is common to think of Jim Crow as an explicitly race-based system, in fact a number of the key policies… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, to boycott the Academy Awards is a slap in Chris Rock's face. To host is such a prestigious honor. To… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“In 1944, the G.I. Bill was adopted to support returning servicemen. The VA not only denied African Americans the mortgage subsidies to… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“And she got the feeling that Boots Smith's relationship to this swiftly moving car was no ordinary one. He wasn't just a… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“I don't want people to think I mind being mistaken for African American. I don't. There are, however, many African immigrants in… — Nadia Owusu Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were all written by affluent white males, but to discuss them… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Wedding films are always about the differences between people. But they haven't quite dealt with African-Americans and Latinos. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.” — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
Happy black history month to all my African Americans thanks to all the African American men and women who lead us so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice. — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
