I was very fortunate to be able to represent an icon to many African Americans. — Usher Copy Share Image
That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive… — Taye Diggs Copy Share Image
Fighting is a sport if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman.… — Thylias Moss Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes,… — Allan Nairn Copy Share Image
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Women in general, and African American women in particular, are still separated by a veil, albeit an invisible one. As long as… — Patricia Dixon Copy Share Image
What's sometimes called the 'browning' of the American Catholic church is very much on the minds of many U.S. bishops - and… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy. — Leon Brown Copy Share Image
Unlike [Woodrow] Wilson, Louis Brandeis did not support the segregation of the federal government. He was personally courteous to African Americans. He… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been… — Solomon Ortiz 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
“According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, our country has been experiencing an “explosive growth in extremist-group activism across the United States”… — Arsalan Iftikhar Copy Share Image
My husband is actually biracial. He is Caucasian and African American. And my brother's fiance is Latina. So we have a colorful… — Aja Brown Copy Share Image
I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good… — Kenneth Edmonds 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
“My characters push the limits of the envelope when it comes to passion, love, and lust. They can be as elegant and… — Neale Sourna Copy Share Image
Representative Al Edwards' pivotal role in establishing Juneteenth as a State holiday in Texas illustrates the political progress and celebration of African… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image