... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
The War on Drugs is a war on people, but particularly it's been a war on low-income people and a war on… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously,… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
Without external pressure, things might have gone very differently. That has always been true for African Americans; the better we've been at… — Michael C Dawson Copy Share Image
Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with African Americans, family is everything. Because we spend so much time talking about how one treats one's family.… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I would be a president for all of the people, African- Americans, the inner cities. Devastating what's happening to our inner cities.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's been obvious that [Republicans]'re doing everything they can to make [Obama] fail. And I hope, I hope - and I say… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Food historian Jessica B. Harris says African American cuisine is simply what black people ate. When I think about what my family… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party, the mainstream media are using fear to control people and to control African Americans in particular. You cannot function… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
A lot of African Americans, especially men, deal with this as a part of life. I've been pulled over by the police… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's often said that you learn more from defeat than victory and the RNC has certainly taken that to heart. After difficult… — Alice Stewart Copy Share Image
We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in… — Hakeem Jeffries Copy Share Image
“Today my elation over Obama's election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness. As an African American woman, with three young… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless. It’s almost as if… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
“There was not just one American dream, in a nation of immigrants, there are countless versions of the dream; the Mexican American… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
“Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp ...Maybe the… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism.He says liberals have… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
You have to admit that Trump is endlessly creative. He has insulted the disabled, the dead, the parents of the dead, women,… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name.… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
The average person on welfare can't afford fresh fruits and vegetables. But in my recipe, you're allowed to use vegetables out of… — Coolio Copy Share Image
We need law and order in the inner cities, because the people that are most affected by what's happening are African-American and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am extremely ecstatic about the presidency of Barack Obama. I think he is paving the way for young African-American men like… — Texas Battle Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't walk around all the time thinking of myself as African American, but oftentimes in Hollywood, you are reminded of that… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
“Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We as African Americans knew that if we wanted to see change, we had to step up to the plate and make… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
You know, Hillary Clinton's out there saying, we need smart diplomacy. We need to do smart power. And that means empathizing with… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“I heard a compelling lecture by an African American pastor from the north side of Chicago. He opened his talk with numbers,… — Jessica Nutik Zitter Copy Share Image
'Boomerang!' I love that movie just because of Halle Berry, Robin Givens, Eddie Murphy, Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt. There were so… — Drew Sidora Copy Share Image
“Lash had been explaining to her that it's impolite to refer to an African American as a nigga, unless one was another… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think that when Riccardo Tisci wanted to bring more attention to the lack of African American presence on the runway, he… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
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