There is a reason that many African Americans have a healthy mistrust for law enforcement. We don't always feel protected or served… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate. — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime, decimated. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not… — Johnny Otis Copy Share Image
Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Michael Joseph Jackson's genius was the ability to be the raw article himself - the real article himself. He is part of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When I looked at 'Dear White People,' you have four African-American students who are all very different and who are trying to… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
I can't deny that it will be a historic event for an African-American to become president. And should that happen, all Americans… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The United States Justice Department, in my opinion, hasn't done a damn thing to alleviate this horrible manifestation of racism, bigotry and… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave. — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
When a dish works, it works for everyone, whether you're Asian, European, African, American or anybody else. — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'm African-American. There are more eyes on me than anybody. They're going to take the negative before the positive. — Bubba Wallace Copy Share Image
I see 'Cyborg' as probably the most iconic African American superhero within all of the comic worlds. — Joivan Wade Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation… — William Labov Copy Share Image
I love the fact that a lot of my audience is people from the inner city. African-Americans love my films. — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
The backlash against gains of African Americans in the Reconstruction Era was swift and severe. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of… — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
We're going to bring jobs back to this country. I think that is one of the reasons I'm going to do well… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
