African american Quotes · Page 21

Have you seen any African American athlete that appeals to the urban market actually bring that market to the MMA?

— Tyron Woodley

One side of the street is a Church; across the road is a liquor store. Both of 'em keepin us poor.

— Chuck D

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny,…

— Marcus Garvey

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

— Huey Newton

“Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please…

— Baratunde R. Thurston

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

While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.

— Julianne Malveaux

My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother's fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful…

— Aja Brown

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he…

— Jesse Jackson

If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an…

— A'Lelia Bundles

The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of…

— Jesse Owens

I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.…

— Joe Sample

“Since postslavery days and through to modern times, debate has raged in the African American community. What does it mean to wear…

— Nicola Yoon

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present…

— Anonymous

I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that…

— Rick Perry

I believe in destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny happen. A lot of times,…

— Spike Lee

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was…

— Viola Davis

I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and…

— Prince

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

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

— Robert Griffin III

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

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

— Stanley Crouch

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the…

— Andreja Pejic

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to…

— Assata Shakur

The contributions of influential African Americans have frequently been ignored, underrepresented, and even silenced.

— Ralph Northam

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

I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can…

— Donald Trump

I can do an hour-long speech about Democrats taking African Americans for granted, and I'd have a line behind me of very…

— Emanuel Cleaver

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You…

— Ralph Ellison

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

— Maya Angelou

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

— Edna Lewis

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full…

— Danny K. Davis

I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.

— Terry Crews

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how…

— Roger Ross Williams

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a…

— Michael Sam

“He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only…

— Roy L. Pickering Jr

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to…

— Russell Simmons

We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

— Evelyn Boyd Granville

There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.

— Columbus Short