African american Quotes · Page 13

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he…

— Sister Souljah

I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

I'm asking for the vote of every single African-American citizen. You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no…

— Donald Trump

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

— Joycelyn Elders

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

— Mara Liasson

It doesn't matter how you travel it, it's the same road. It doesn't get any easier when you get bigger, it gets…

— James Brown

I can't compete for roles that require me to be Caucasian or African American, even if those characters really connect with me…

— Mena Massoud

I don't think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches,…

— Frank Deford

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled…

— Michelle Alexander

“I have often wondered whether the white people who know we are kin actually see us as family. It's critical for me…

— Michael W. Twitty

The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a…

— Henry Louis Gates

We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people…

— Donald Trump

“Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans and one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.…

— Michelle Singletary

Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

— Michael N. Castle

There's a natural marriage between the pro-Israel Jewish community and the African American community.

— Ritchie Torres

The harsh truth is that 'respectability' is the exorbitant tax we African Americans are forced to pay daily as we try to…

— Jonathan Capehart

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

— John Lewis

“I’ve often thought that being a light-skinned black woman is like being a well-dressed person who is also homeless.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

— Chaka Fattah

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you…

— Oprah Winfrey

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I went to the malls and I balled too hard 'Oh my god, is that a Black Card?' I turned around and…

— Kanye West

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

— Leah Ward Sears

Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be…

— Josephine Baker

One of the great things about African-Americans is that we've always had this attitude: We make do with what we got. It…

— Spike Lee

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in…

— Keegan-Michael Key

At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of…

— Marcus Garvey

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

— Alice Walker

I won’t react to something just because I’m supposed to, because I’m an African-American.

— Kobe Bryant

We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American.

— Bernie Sanders

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes,…

— Allan Nairn

“I'll go further and say she was one of the best cooks in the world! The compimentary expression, "This food will make…

— Mars Hill

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the…

— June Jordan

I'm the least racist person. Friends of mine that happen to be African-American said: "You're the least racist person we've ever met".…

— Donald Trump

My mother is an African-American from the South Side of Chicago who married a white guy in 1978. She was hyperaware of…

— Hannah Bronfman

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do…

— Barack Obama

I'm going to help the African-Americans. I'm going to help the Latinos, Hispanics. I am going to help the inner cities.

— Donald Trump