African american Quotes · Page 19

I'm African American, I'm a lot of other things, a musician and an artist. But that woman part holds the most pain…

— India.Arie

Being African American and Jewish, I have plenty of ancestors and family members that I can look to for strength and, more…

— Cameron Boyce

No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant…

— Nas

I want to thank my managers, Jaime King and Marcus King. Lets live this African American dream. Its beautiful. Im glad Im…

— Jamie Foxx

I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic…

— Jeb Bush

It hasn't been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these…

— Nina Turner

There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

— Chadwick Boseman

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.

— Karl Rove

Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty…

— Rick Santorum

It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen…

— Gabourey Sidibe

We have a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down…

— Max Boot

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say,…

— Donald Trump

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge…

— Henry Louis Gates

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the…

— Dennis Quaid

There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this…

— Barack Obama

I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I loved the African-American culture, but racism was still a big problem and white America was exactly what I didn't love.

— Mick Hucknall

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

— Linda Johnson Rice

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.

— Michael Eric Dyson

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

— Matthew Desmond

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

— Matthew Desmond

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

— Nikki Giovanni

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

— Kerry James Marshall

To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

— Barack Obama

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

— Julie Delpy

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

— Stanley Crouch

We are carrying collectively a lot of trauma, especially those of us in the African-American community. And if we're not careful, it'll…

— Bernice King

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

— Ted Cruz

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on…

— Mike Pence

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been…

— Bob Cousy

What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.

— Morris Dees

I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great,…

— Wesley Snipes

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community,…

— Lori Lightfoot

Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is…

— Leon Brown

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

— Deion Sanders

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

— Sarah Vaughan

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

— Lynn Swann

If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him.

— Mitt Romney