African american Quotes · Page 11

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of…

— Benjamin Banneker

I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam: I'm a college graduate. I'm African American, and I'm…

— Michael Sam

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do…

— Zora Neale Hurston

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral…

— Opal Tometi

There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.

— Marc Veasey

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

— Rand Paul

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in…

— Xavier Becerra

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

Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will…

— Dennis Kimbro

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American…

— Douglas Wilder

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop.…

— Jimmy Carter

When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside…

— Cynthia Nixon

“John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe,…

— Zora Neale Hurston

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American.…

— Terry Gross

Recognition has brought me more work, because your name suddenly comes to mind when some directors are trying to cast a character.…

— Viola Davis

“Far from fading away, it appears that prisons are here to stay. And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Condoleezza Rice

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

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

— Madonna Ciccone

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

— David Steward

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

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

— Ray Lewis

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

— Colin Allred

It's odd to say we had our first African American president before our first African-American-owned movie studio, but we're making progress.

— Byron Allen

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If the only thing that was interesting about Jefferson Pierce is that he is African-American, I don't think we'd have much of…

— Salim Akil

When I walk in the door sometimes, I'm already an anomaly. Because I'm working in a genre that African-American's don't typically engage…

— Kevin Grevioux

[People] have no jobs, they have horrible education, they have no safety or security, and I say to the African-American community, what…

— Donald Trump

America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.

— Mitch McConnell

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

— Ed Gillespie

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a…

— Marcus Miller

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

— Don Lemon

“(On Barack Obama) "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.…

— Joe Biden

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.

— Toni Morrison

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

— Pearl Cleage

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

— Emmanuel Jal

“I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).”

— Brett Kiellerop-Morris

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

— Michael Jordan

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at…

— Gordon Parks