Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Financial inequity for African Americans has been perpetuated by companies that are known to have benefited from the institution of slavery. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Being an African-American, minority, or poor, you get in a tough situation and you don't get a fair shake. — Mike Conley Jr Copy Share Image
Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color. — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
I think that we, as the African-American men in hip-hop, we have a greater responsibly because we have the ears of so… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival… — Frank C. Garland Copy Share Image
You know Latin people? African-American people? How our skin ages more slowly? Even though we're dramatic, we move our faces, we eat… — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd… — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women -… — Leah Ward Sears Copy Share Image
Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be… — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Chairman Priebus set out on an early and historic political outreach plan which called for investing resources early to build the RNC… — Matt Schlapp Copy Share Image
Lots of African-American people really so adore Barack Obama that they're unwilling to even be mildly critical of him. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to… — Matt Kemp Copy Share Image
I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause. — Tim Hardaway Copy Share Image
The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American… — Stacy Brown-Philpot Copy Share Image
People in America kill themselves because they find no reason to live. People in Africa fight to live cause they want to… — DJ Adams Copy Share Image
Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists. — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
The uncomfortable reality we must face is that California, like the nation as a whole, has treated generations of African Americans and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity. — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
As African Americans, we always have to fight for inclusion, despite your moral background: Christian, Muslim, Jewish - it doesn't matter. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step. — Jerome Ringo Copy Share Image
It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal. — Cassandra Wilson Copy Share Image
And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Blacks have no rights - in fact they were three - fifths human according to the constitution to give slave owners more… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
Only when you know who you are will you be able to find the courage to do what drives you-with integrity and… — Bethann Hardison Copy Share Image
We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
