African american Quotes

Me and ma gurl<3

— Anonymous

I love jb<3

— Anonymous

“DNA has memory!”

— Isaiah Washington

I never doubted my ability, but...

— Hank Aaron

Start where you are, use what you have.

— Arthur Ashe

I believe in prayer. It's the best...

— Josephine Baker

Enthusiasm is everything. It must...

— Pele

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats...

— Maya Angelou

If the house is to be set in order,...

— John Hope Franklin

Being black has a lot to do with my...

— Willi Smith

I have a lot of African-American friends.

— Larry Pressler

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

— Maya Angelou

To be a Negro in America is to hope against hope.

— Martin Luther King Jr

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.

— Russell Simmons

African American quarterbacks can do it just as well as anybody else.

— Randall Cunningham

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

— Maya Angelou

I'm an American; I'm not an African-American. I'm an American.

— Raven-Symone

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

— Louis Armstrong

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does…

— Terry McMillan

As the only African American NASCAR driver in over 40 years, we have been honored to support Bubba Wallace.

— David Steward

If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

— Madonna Ciccone

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

— Whoopi Goldberg

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

— Rebecca Lee Crumpler

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

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Colin Allred

Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be…

— Bam Adebayo

“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face,…

— Michael Pollan

Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American…

— Teju Cole

I'm Kan, the Louis Vouitton don / Bought my mom purse, now she Louis Vuitton mom / I didn't play the hand…

— Kanye West

There has been a struggle to reclaim the African self. That struggle has been on the part of a minority of dedicated…

— John Henrik Clarke

Iris is the Lois Lane of 'The Flash.' It's a really special role. Knowing they were willing to offer it to an…

— Candice Patton

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial…

— Michelle Alexander

My mom is African-American, Native-American, Irish, and Creole, and my father is of Jewish, Russian, and Polish descent. It's made me who…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

A purely materialistic art would be...

— Haile Selassie

In every crisis there is a message…

— Susan L. Taylor

I am not an African. I am an American.

— Albert Murray

A man who views the world the same...

— Muhammad Ali

Swag is for boys. Class is for gentle men..

— Don Kel