You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you… — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community. — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist,… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I started to think of 'Hidden Figures' as the first part of a mid-century African-American trilogy. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you? — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future. — Mary Landrieu Copy Share Image
There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. We can now have action movies with… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The sprinkling of people of color through elite institutions in the United States, due to affirmative action policies and the limited progress… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“After situating herself on a huge flat-sided rock, Baby Suggs bowed her head and prayed silently. The company watched her from the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky. — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra Copy Share Image
We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
As you know, in this country Anglo-Americans are about 75 to 76 percent home ownership in this country, where Hispanics, African Americans… — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
“But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. I’m happy to have choices. They’re… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys. — Khalid Copy Share Image
What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media. — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying… — Brittney Griner Copy Share Image
It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men… — Lance Gross Copy Share Image
“the black church helped African Americans survive the harshest forms of oppression and developed a revolutionary appeal for universal communal spirituality. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The omnibus programs passed under the Social Security Act in 1935 were crafted in such a way as to protect the southern… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they're especially trying to tell the African-American voter that… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal… — Timothy Thomas Fortune Copy Share Image
"First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As an African-American, I think the way I treated others affected how people treated me. If people do attack you in certain… — David Steward Copy Share Image
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers,… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
“You are divine. You are rich. You have good juju as you have inherited the greatest inheritance there is. You have the… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
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