Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Branding says a lot about luxury and about exclusion and about the choices that manufacturers make, but I think that what society… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early… — Yusef Lateef Copy Share Image
As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“Entering the foyer, Royale already decided that he would thank Shake once more for being by his side at Keena’s recital. But… — S.B. Redd Copy Share Image
I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and… — Darius Rucker Copy Share Image
I'm distraught as I look at my boys - two are African American and one is Caucasian - because too many people… — Monty Williams Copy Share Image
You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the… — Chick Webb Copy Share Image
I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I think that seeing as much support as somebody like Obama as a black candidate running for president in a country that… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
“As those Georgetown scholars say in their 2013 “Separate and Unequal” report, between 1995 and 2009, new freshmen enrollments grew by 197… — Goldie Blumenstyk Copy Share Image
So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“One of the most impressive civilizing offensives of the 1990s came from African American communities, who set themselves the task of recivilizing… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I hope that more [African-Americans] decide to play after seeing the things that I was able to accomplish; not only myself, but… — Dontrelle Willis Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big… — James Fox Copy Share Image
These same people who accuse Planned Parenthood of 'targeting' African-American children, they care about you only while you're in the womb. The… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
Remember, Donald [Trump] started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think 99.9% of our law enforcement officers are great Americans. Many of them are African American, Hispanic, Asian, they're working the… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I grew up a poor kid to a single mom, so as an African-American actor I have a responsibility to hold the… — Tony Todd Copy Share Image
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When you hear "Seinfield," no one says, "the Jewish comic." You talk about Cedric the Entertainer, you don't say, "African American comedian… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
“A tightrope walker uncertain if he could make it to the other side probably would not. A race car driver wondering if… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
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The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I stand on the shoulders of so many who have come before me, including Judge Constance Baker Motley, who was the first… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
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