“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say. — Joseph Simmons Copy Share Image
The contributions of influential African Americans have frequently been ignored, underrepresented, and even silenced. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Too many people have lost their lives, particularly in the African-American community, for the right to vote. I stand in their shadows… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that. — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact… — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I'm trying to get… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A lot of African American women wanted to emulate white women. But I said in my mind, rationally thinking, there is no… — Claudette Colvin Copy Share Image
Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
African-Americans are always forced to learn the other culture, but the other culture is not forced to learn ours. I went to… — Tracie Thoms Copy Share Image
History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
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