For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro'…

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and…

— Malcolm X

I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was…

— Surya Das

Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of…

— Manning Marable

The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning,…

— Jay Saunders Redding

When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read…

— Ishmael Reed

The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all…

— Anonymous

The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've…

— Tim Meadows

Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to…

— Rick Riordan

Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and…

— Helen McCrory

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse…

— Ida B. Wells

Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels…

— Garth Fagan

The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is…

— Malcolm X

In Italy, I had an Afro, and a lot of the kids came up and felt my hair. It really was funny. I wish…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die.

— Malcolm X