African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
When I was young, I dreamt of being a starlet in Hollywood. But there comes a point in every African American's life… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Art is a form of experience of the person, the place, the history of the people, and as black people, we are… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
I'd been listening to African-American music since the first record I ever bought, which was by Sam Cooke. And it sounds more… — David Toop Copy Share Image
“As an African American, I don’t take myself too seriously that I can’t poke fun at stereotypes that used to offend me.… — L.V. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
The magazines were born out of a need that my parents saw: that there were no magazines that really spoke to black… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
“The racial dimension of mass incarceration is its most striking feature. No other country in the world imprisons so many of its… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“Some of us have been hiding, shrinking, betraying ourselves, faking the funk, and playing small for so long that we believe that… — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
I get tired of hearing people, well-meaning people, talking about African-American kids or Hispanic kids as if they're all the same. Which… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled… — Bruce Dain Copy Share Image
Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I will never again play anything that does not have social significance. We American jazz musicians of African descent have proved beyond… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Black people are dying in this country because we have a criminal justice system which is out of control, a system in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one… — Will Yun Lee Copy Share Image
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Funny enough though, despite what Donald Trump has to say and the way African-American people are portrayed so often in media, African-American… — Lynn Whitfield Copy Share Image
“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“...(I)t can be stated that the spread of the ideology connecting Africa and black people in general with the Jews has been… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man… — A. G. Gaston Copy Share Image
“One of the most commonly used American history textbooks is The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century. A thousand-page volume, published by… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“More African American adults are under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
