I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
In Palm Beach, Florida, tough community, a brilliant community, a wealthy community, probably the wealthiest community there is in the world, I… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There is a certain subset of African American sports announcers, anchors and analysts who are always ready to spring into action and… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
“A little white woman, . . . [a] tiny little white woman I could fit in my pocket.’ . . . ‘And… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have… — David W. Blight Copy Share Image
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
We know that African American students tend to be relational learners. It's about the relationships between a teacher and student. Students respond… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
Now goverments are a different thing. Presidents who do not want me. As I said, an African-American discriminates against an indigenous Bolivian.… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Washington was concerned that the soldiers coming to him from Massachusetts were too few and of too low quality. He was disappointed… — C.L. Gammon Copy Share Image
My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
As an African-American athlete, you get discouraged that this type of thing is still condoned in people's lives. You look at a… — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Aug. 2, 1992, was one of the most memorable moments in sports-entertainment. It was on that night in Baltimore, that Ron Simmons… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, Brandy was TV star, reality star, a pop star, a Cover girl, Grammy winner, had her own… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
“bolstered southern power by scrapping the rule that had once counted an African American as only three-fifths of a person for electoral… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Grace Lee Boggs was both product and producer of an improbable history. “I grew up in New York as a first generation… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
If [Hillary] Clinton can't boost African-American turnout, even with all that help, the question becomes whether she can make up for it… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
There are so many people that don't come in contact with black men. Whether they live in a homogeneous area that's mostly… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
“While appreciating its accomplishments, we must acknowledge that the legal end of segregation fell short of bringing African Americans to full equality.… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“1. Declaration of Intent: Hand lifting to the sky The first step is the collective declaration of intent to reestablish Kintuadi between… — Dom Pedro V Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can… — Cory Hardrict Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same… — Marshawn Lynch Copy Share Image
“But class divisions influence criminal justice debates in black communities in less obvious ways as well: they explain, for example, why black… — James Forman Jr Copy Share Image
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I'm one of the few Black writers, or African American writers, who managed to work my way through the system so that… — James McBride Copy Share Image
In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There are features that African Americans have that are similar! There are features that white people have that are similar! Features that… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young… — Vincent Harding Copy Share Image
“The document that heralded our national revolution, the Declaration of Independence, was penned by Thomas Jefferson. Within that text, he did not… — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I think anyone that comes to Nigeria has to offer value. What value are you bringing? There are Black Americans here. I… — Mo Abudu Copy Share Image
This [2016] election is also about, so importantly to me, African-American and Hispanic-American people whose communities have been plunged into crime, poverty… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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