We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination and that there are many wrongs that must still be made… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
If you want a president who will make things better in the African-American community, you are looking at him. You take a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me. — Chamillionaire Copy Share Image
The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor. — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully,… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“In 1821, the United States government sent Dr. Eli Ayres to West Africa to buy, on what was known as the “Pepper… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education. They have no jobs. I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I stay connected in my head. I'm spiritually and psychologically connected to African-Americans. They are my people, and that will never change. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When you're Jamaican, you don't consider yourself African American even though everyone else considers you that. — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life! — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types. — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog. I'm always fighting to overcome the obstacle. I can… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
It takes time for brown people and people of different ethnicities to get into the Hollywood world, which is predominantly Caucasian and… — Utkarsh Ambudkar Copy Share Image
“invidious is the fact that those ideas about African Americans are unfair and socially debilitating. Some” — John Corvino Copy Share Image
Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
My dad's entire business and enterprises have been about helping the African-American community. — EJ Johnson Copy Share Image
For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money, — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
When black Britons draw parallels between their experiences and those of African Americans, they are not suggesting that those experiences are identical. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community. — Philip Smith Copy Share Image
African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements. — Curtis Martin Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
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