Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty. — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I think for the foreseeable future we have to disabuse ourselves of any ideas of unifying, or coming together, or all getting… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so… — Anita Hill 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
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I don't see how any African-American, with any inkling of history, can say that you don't have the right to live your… — Michael Irvin Copy Share Image
“To review briefly, in the late 1960s, men got paid more than women (usually double) for doing the exact same job. Women… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else… — Jordan Flaherty Copy Share Image
Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor… — Steve Sailer Copy Share Image
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“The most powerful ancestral or generational curse we face is our unhealed trauma.” — Abiola Abrams Copy Share Image
“what do African Americans get in return for our loyalty? Very little. Democrats do not champion black causes with the same passion… — Van Jones 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
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color. — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
