I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
People can graduate from beauty school and know everything about white hair and nothing about African-American hair. — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors, — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color. — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States. — David Scott Copy Share Image
When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
“When Hodges was presented to Harmon the next morning for a positive ID, Harmon reportedly couldn’t be sure he was her attacker.… — E.R. Bills Copy Share Image
Ray Charles revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King… — Diane Watson Copy Share Image
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We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
There were people who voted for Obama simply because he was the first African-American. We had a lot of people that would… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to… — Mildred D. Taylor Copy Share Image
There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I'm African American… — Maya Rudolph Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I will go to the NAACP convention, and explain to the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Don't expect anyone to give you anything. If you really believe in something, then fight for it... — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
“Nationally in 2011, poor whites exceeded the poor African American total by roughly eight million: 19,171,000 versus 10,929,000.” — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem. — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity. — Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe Copy Share Image
Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights, but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“African Americans own 2.7 percent of the nation’s wealth, and make up 40 percent of the incarcerated population.” — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness. — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Somehow, someway, for some people there's an automatic assumption that a mayor who is African-American or some other elected official has to… — Michael Nutter Copy Share Image
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