African americans Quotes · Page 5

I don't compare myself with only African-Americans... I do not grade myself on a color scheme.

— Shelton Benjamin

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

— Rebecca Traister

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

— Leah Ward Sears

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.

— Nicholas Kristof

“If you believe in a cause, be willing to stand up for that cause with a million people or by yourself.”

— Otis S. Johnson

African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.

— Opal Tometi

The contributions of influential African Americans have frequently been ignored, underrepresented, and even silenced.

— Ralph Northam

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

— Anonymous

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they…

— Assata Shakur

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

This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would…

— Herman Cain

I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech,…

— Bobby Jindal

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

“Hadar, the only time I feel black is when I look at my hands," Spencer said, spreading his fingers out in front…

— Paul Beatty

I do think that it's a responsibility when there are so few of us as African Americans to kind of get to…

— Misty Copeland

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to…

— James Baldwin

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

We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply…

— William J. Clinton

“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

“In the month of his inauguration, 63 percent of African Americans held a favorable view of race relations in America. By July…

— Jack Cashill

Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You…

— Bill O'Reilly

We've had now eight years and there's this prideful sense among many African Americans. When you think about how elated they are…

— Ed Gordon

“[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

“We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching…

— Michael Hardt

“The quarter century following World War II was a ‘golden age’ for most workers and their families…, even for men with a…

— Karl Alexander

“I asked another friend what it's like being the mother of a black son. "The condition of black life is one of…

— Claudia Rankine

“The state of Mississippi eventually moved from hiring convict labor to organizing its own convict labor camp, known as Parchman Farm. It…

— Michelle Alexander

“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I suggest that those who live in the past don't want a confrontation with the present. I believe that white Americans welcome…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other…

— N.K. Jemisin

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

— Rand Paul

African Americans know implicitly that you cannot take freedoms for granted and that democracy is precious. And it's worth fighting for.

— Colin Allred

I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

— Condoleezza Rice

I taught myself to paint African-Americans, mostly people roughly my skin tone.

— Kehinde Wiley

I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.

— Ibtihaj Muhammad

“Enslaved African Americans built the modern United States, and indeed the entire modern world, in ways both obvious and hidden.”

— Edward E. Baptist

I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

— Rand Paul

“The defeat that had frightened her in the faces of black men was the defeat of black forever defined by white.”

— Alice Walker